{"id":108691,"date":"2026-02-17T10:39:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T14:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/leones-del-escogido-105-years-of-history-and-glory-in-dominican-baseball\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T10:39:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T14:39:39","slug":"leones-del-escogido-105-years-of-history-and-glory-in-dominican-baseball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/leones-del-escogido-105-years-of-history-and-glory-in-dominican-baseball\/","title":{"rendered":"Leones del Escogido: 105 Years of History and Glory in Dominican Baseball"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Leones del Escogido: 105 Years of Claw and Tradition in Dominican Baseball<\/h2>\n\nSanto Domingo \u2013 Los Leones del Escogido celebrate their 105th anniversary this Tuesday, an emblematic date that commemorates their founding on February 17, 1921. This milestone comes at a promising sporting moment, marked by recent successes and a rich history in Dominican professional baseball.\n\nThe capital team arrives at this celebration after being crowned champions in the 2025-26 season, achieving their 18th title. The victory was achieved after defeating the Toros del Este in a final series that extended to five exciting games.\n\nIn that memorable final series, the figures of Junior Lake, Erik Gonz\u00e1lez and S\u00f3crates Brito shone with their offense, under the strategic direction of Ram\u00f3n Santiago.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The directive aims to preserve the competitive tradition and institutional identity of the team.<\/p><cite>Eduardo Najri, Club President<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nThe organization has won championships in various eras, from the mid-20th century to the present, including five Caribbean Series titles. Eduardo Najri, club president, has emphasized the board&#8217;s commitment to preserving the competitive tradition and institutional identity of the team, which is based at the Quisqueya Stadium.\n\nThroughout their history, the Leones del Escogido have had the talent of legendary players such as Juan Marichal, David Ortiz, and Starling Marte. Their first successes date back to 1922, the year they won their first national championship, with the outstanding participation of Tetelo Vargas.\n\nThe institution was founded by players from various local teams and has since been a fundamental pillar in the structure of organized baseball in the Dominican Republic.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leones del Escogido: 105 Years of Claw and Tradition in Dominican Baseball Santo Domingo \u2013 Los Leones del Escogido celebrate their 105th anniversary this Tuesday, an emblematic date that commemorates their founding on February 17, 1921. This milestone comes at a promising sporting moment, marked by recent successes and a rich history in Dominican professional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":108692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[8387,88,514,3875],"class_list":{"0":"post-108691","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-anniversary","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-championship","11":"tag-leones-del-escogido"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}