Chile national baseball team

Chile national baseball team

Country	Chile
Federation	Federación de Béisbol y Softbol de Chile
Confederation	COPABE
Manager	Norge Núñez

The Chile national baseball team is the national baseball team of Chile. The team represents Chile in international competitions. It is affiliated to the International Baseball Federation and his continental confederation COPABE. It is controlled by the Federación de Béisbol y Softbol de Chile.

History

The early history of baseball in Chile are at the date of American independence on 4 July, 1918, is a photo of a party are contesting in Tocopilla American players in the U.S. national day States.

At the time of the nitrate peak in northern Chile, and product development in the city of Iquique and industrial progress, several ships that dock in this port city with people who came to seek better pay, and a of them (the ship of the line Maru) went to city a Japanese, Sakurada Tatsukichi Endo, who called himself "John", I wanted to play baseball, which had been the best in the United States, Europe and his native . With 8 players in the city, founded in 1931 in Iquique Baseball Association and Chile, the first regulatory body of the sport in the country.

The first rudimentary practices wore diamonds in the city and charms made by Sakurada implementation that were not the best 2. However, the competition was almost nil, but soon begins to sport practice in other northern cities, where a competent and clubs, as Tocopilla, Antofagasta, Chuquicamata and of course in Iquique. In Santiago, the first clubs were founded, when Japanese, along with other stakeholders such as Chileans and Nicaraguans and Venezuelans, who in 1949, in the north, would play the first match between cities in Chile in baseball history. In 1951 he founded the Baseball Federation of Chile and in 1953 established a national championship to be held annually adult, which has won Tocopilla nearly 50 percent of the party held to date.

In Iquique from about 14 existing clubs or so, there would be a ninth national champion baseball, then it would again in 1956 in Antofagasta, in 1960 while in Maria Elena, and in Iquique in 1960. Two big players in the squad who were the figures Iquique in tournaments named, were Manuel Loyola and Luis Guerrero, the latter was one of the most victorious pitchers who pitched six innings in a day, and the next nine to Santiago launched in the Championship 60 '.

In northern Chile had a good fitness level for the good organization of the leaders, but after 60 Championship ', the disappearance and the mishandling of the organizations competitive level dropped and disappeared several clubs, however the continued to Iquique combined victories among the first places as in 1968 and 1975. Product of the imbalance of sport in Iquique, Tocopilla stands as the best national team, obtaining 18 consecutive national championship title.

The 1980 season proved to be the best in baseball (as well as other sports) in Chile, mostly because of deception that took football in Spain '82, reaching the World Youth Baseball conducted in Japan in 1989. However, the victory of Colo-Colo in the Copa Libertadores 1991 led to a resurgence of football in the country, and baseball and basketball and boxing, he started having a serious decline, which worsened during the call Tennis Fever. During the years 1998 and 2004, a period in which baseball was about to disappear from the professional sphere, as happened with basketball and volleyball (both now being relegated to field sports and amateur student ). In fact, the sport's federation has reported literally a virtual duopoly sports between football and tennis, campaigning to avoid the same fate they have faced almost every other professional sports in Chile.

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Current Roster

Pitchers

• Pablo Ossandón
• Alejandro Pérez
• Antonio Vergara
• Lois Solar
• Juan Canque
• Patricio Morales
• Jonathan Castroo
• Kentaro Abguillerm
• Juan Orostegui
• José Flores
• Enzo Doria
• Daniel Torres

Catchers

• Fernando Romero
• Sebastián Barrera
• Diego Valenzuela

Infielders

• James Sommerville
• Ian Sommerville
• Cristián Luna
• Carlos Beroiza
• Arturo Bugueño

Outfielders

• Álvaro Campillay
• Alfredo Figueroa
• Thomas Salas
• Franco Navarro

External links

• Federación de Béisbol y Softbol de Chile