Mexican Professional baseball

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Mexican Baseball
Blake Eckert Febuary 2009 2nd Period
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Homerun!!!!!!!

• My presentation is about Mexican baseball and
  when it was founded in 1925. It also has how many
  teams it had when they started their first year
  of Mexican baseball.

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Introduction!!!

• When it was founded in 1925, the league included
  six teams (74 Regiment, México, Agrarian,
  National, Guanajuato and Aguilera). Since then,
  the league has expanded to sixteen teams, divided
  equally into a north and a south zone, the
  champions of which meet to contest a best of
  seven game playoff series.. The season begins in
  mid-March with the playoffs running through
  mid-August.

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• Mexico even have winter teams
• They play baseball all year around
• The Mexican baseball league was founded in 1925
• The Mexican baseball league has many baseball
  teams
• The season begins in mid-March with the playoffs
  running through mid-August.
• 16 teams divided into North and South Divisions
  play in the Liga Mexicana in a summer season,
  which ends in a 7-game championship series
  between the winners of the two divisions
• In international competition, the Mexican
  national team failed to advance beyond the second
  round of the World Baseball Classic in 2006.
  shape modern and the future of baseball in Mexico
  

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Did You Know ?

• In international competition, the Mexican
  national team failed to advance beyond the second
  round of the World Baseball Classic in 2006.Shape
  modern and the future of baseball in Mexico
• The improbable "Little Giants," as they came to
  be known, featured a host of players that would
  eventually shape modern and the future of
  baseball in Mexico
• In 1957, baseball in Mexico got a big boost when
  a little league team in Mexico won the Little
  League World Series in Williamsport
• Espino still holds the all-time records in many
  offensive categories

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• In international competition, the Mexican
  national team failed to advance beyond the second
  round of the World Baseball Classic in 2006.
• The El Salon de la Fame, the Mexican Professional
  Baseball Hall of Fame, has enshrined 167 into its
  Hall of Immortals, consisting of 138 Mexicans, 16
  Cubans, 12 from the United States, and one Puerto
  Rican .
• Its second-round 2-1 victory over the United
  States before a heavy pro-USA crowd of 38,284 in
  Angel Stadium in Anaheim, California, proved to
  be a big highlight to Mexicans.

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Concluion

• The Mexican baseball league is a little bit
  different. They have different teams like they
  have winter and summer teams. Their season starts
  in mid-march with the playoffs running in
  mid-August. They play year around, The Mexican
  baseball league was founded in 1925.