A new sport

Trip Start Jul 21, 2009

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Trip End Apr 28, 2010

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Kalala Lodge

Flag of Nicaragua Granada, Nicaragua
Saturday, October 24, 2009

After returning from the islands, we headed into Granada. Granada is perhaps the most tourist-oriented town in Nicaragua, and from what we've seen so far, for a good reason. The town center is composed of very pleasant, colonial-style buildings, and is quite pretty. I'm looking forward to exploring it in the next few days.

For this afternoon, though, we opted to step a little bit outside the city center. Why? Because the Nicaraguan professional baseball league had a game in Granada today. First of all, yes -- there is really a professional baseball league in Nicaragua. As it turns out, it's a pretty decent league, and they send quite a few players up to the US to play for our teams as well. Today's game was between the team from Granada and a team from Chinandega (a place we had to change busses once). Although these aren't the best two teams in the country, it was still a good game, and went down to the last half inning. The stadium resembled a standard minor-league stadium in the US, with a roughly comperable sized crowd.

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