The baseball on Venezuela It is divided before and after the famous and popular eres del 41, who in 1941 won the Amateur Baseball World Series in Havana, Cuba, since then baseball has become popular and popularized in Venezuela and since then we have also continued to wait for others. heroes like that with respect to the senior team in baseball.
I grew up in Venezuela listening: let’s play baseball when the soccer team was thrashed in the 80s and 90s, even until the beginning of 2000. So when the Major League Baseball (MLB) announced the World Baseball Classic, I told myself it was time to get even.
But nothing could be further from reality with the performance of Venezuela in the World Classic of Baseball, where the furthest we have come is to the semifinals in 2009 and we gave ourselves the toupee to save Felix The king Hernández for the hypothetical ending.
From the different sectors associated and close to the selection of Venezuela the failure of the major selection of baseball in the World Baseball Classic from the lack of batting, to the managers, even going through the lack of harmony and communication, etc, etc, etc.
The truth is that either in the World Baseball Classic, in the Premier 12 or in the Pre-Olympic of Baseball, even until his playoff in Venezuela We are still waiting 80 years later for other heroes of 41 and that since 1939 we had our first MLB and since then more than 400 Venezuelans have played in the Major Leagues, so if we have Venezuelan World Series champions in the Big Show with outstanding performances, champions bats, Cy youngs, Triple crowned and even Most Valuable Players (MVP) and we are even the third country with more players in the Big Top system because we have not even been able to reach the final of the World Baseball Classic or qualify for the Olympic Games with the senior pick and you can think about the limitations, restrictions and whatever you want of MLB.
Either we are simply good at baseball individually, but not collectively, or is it that with the professionalization of the baseball on Venezuela the collective heroes are over or that with the passage of time that was lost along the way because the sense of belonging is maintained at least in times of social networks, although it seems more to those that Juan Villoro wrote than the soccer team of a The country is the mirror, a reflection of it, and that seems to apply perfectly to the Venezuelan baseball team, even though in theory there is a desire to do things well, but that is not enough like Franco de Vita’s song.
PS: The selection of Venezuela from baseball won the Gold medal at the 1959 Chicago Pan American Games.
Picture Team Baseball Venezuela.