The baseball team of Holguín for the next National Championship was formed today at a meeting held at the Pernik Hotel in this city, with the presence of Ernesto Santiesteban, first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba in this territory.
Cuban Baseball Commissioner Juan Reinaldo Perez announced Friday that the National Series will start next January 22, with 75 games for the 16 teams of the championship.
Holguín has four athletes with tickets to the First Youth Pan American Games to take place in Cali, Colombia, from November 25 to December 5.
The Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) awarded the prize for outstanding athlete performance to Cuban Greco-Roman wrestler Mijaín López, who won his fourth Olympic crown in Tokyo 2020.
Music by the popular Failde Orchestra and a recognition to the iconic Sanchez family, from the municipality of Jovellanos, will be part of the ceremony to declare baseball as Cultural Heritage of the nation at the Palmar de Junco stadium, in this city (western Cuba).