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Chihuahua’s state league of baseball
Chihuahua’s state league of baseball (in spanish: La Liga Estatal de Beisbol de Chihuahua) is the most emblematic sport league within chihuahua state citizens. Currently established with 10 teams, including more than 250 players, 12 baseball stadiums and one of the top 3 leagues in Mexico, with the main goal of developing young players and increasing the number of fans, even though the teams which participate in this league, are not part of the Mexican Baseball Association League.

History
The beginnings of baseball as a sport in Chihuahua started in 1898 at Parral city, where local citizens played each other just in a recreational way. Years later, in 1936 Teodoro Gonzalez, created a non-official league where teams from popular cities played against each other in a competitional level in order to represent Chihuahua in national tournaments. The 3 founder teams were “Dorados de Chihuahua”, “Mineros de Parral” and “Indios de Cd Juarez”. As it was expected, the league caught up a tremendous support among citizens, in 1956 another two teams were added it to the league, “Algodoneros de Delicias”and “Faraones de Nuevo Casas Grandes”. As a result of the league success, in 1957 the LEBC (Liga Estatal de Béisbol de Chihuahua) was formally created and recognized by the Mexican Baseball Federation. The function of the league was to organize and expand the league.

Problems
Along the years more teams were incoporate into the league, “Manzaneros de Cuauhtémoc”, “Mazorqueros de Camargo”, “Rojos de Jiménez”, “Soles de Ojinaga”, “Venados de Madera”, “ Centauros de Chihuahua”. But it was until 1990, when the board of directors decided to innovate the management inside the league, in order to expand it and become not only a state league, but a regional one. This decision caused the breakdown of several state teams, “Centauros de Chihuahua”, “Nogaleros de Ojinaga”, and the creation of another independent league "the third zone", were a third part of the currently state league teams decided to be part of. At the end, the creation of the new baseball league ended up being a complete fail, as consequence of inussuficient teams, lack of baseball fields, poor media influence and deficient league administration.

Current Teams

 * Algodoneros de Delicias
 * Dorados de Chihuahua
 * Faraones de Nuevo Casas Grandes
 * Indios de Ciudad Juarez
 * Manzaneros de Cuauhtemoc
 * Mazorqueros de Camargo
 * Mineros de Parral
 * Rojos de Jimenez
 * Soles de Ojinaga
 * Venados de Madera

Doping
Doping is consider the usage of substances, belonging to prohibited classes or the use of prohibited methods, before or during the competition that seek to increase or decrease artificially and in an unsportsmanlike manner the physical or psychological condition of a player. Penalties will be imposed, as of the obtaining of a POSITIVE result, in the following way:
 * 20 to 30 thousand pesos and suspension of ten or more games.
 * suspension from one to four years, for reincurring doping.
 * Two-year suspension when the player refuses the Anti-Doping Control.
 * Suspension of two years to the player who by any means facilitates, supplies or incites to practice doping.

Agreements of 2018 Season

 * Maximum number of players per team will be 28, inlcuding 4 underage players.
 * Six teams go to the playoffs to win 3 of five games. passing to the semifinals and finals the 3 winning teams and the best loser (according to the possition in the general table of the regular season).
 * The first game of each series, the local team will have to wear their uniform in a black color.
 * Maximum of two international players per team.
 * Games will only be played on weekends (Friday, Saturday and Sunday)

Popularity
Chihuahua league baseball has become part of the patrimony inthe state, and the second most wanted league for young players, thus its location near to the United States, sport scouts from all over the continent are in a continuous search for young baseball stars. A third part of the players from Chihuahua’s baseball league are Latin Americans, from countries such as Belice, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Colombia, etc. in the past years there had been MLB (Major League of Baseball) training camps in Chihuahua city in order to select and recruit young talented Mexicans baseball athletes.