OrKasBbc.com The first European team in the Venezuelan Liga Paralela.
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The Official Site of Orkas BBC
The first European team in the Venezuelan Liga Paralela, the ALB-Orkas BBC is a baseball team that play in the WINTER LEAGUE at the 2nd larges pro competition. They are from Holland.
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English
After two years of traveling to Valencia’s city in Venezuela; the Dutch baseball academy The European Baseball School (EBS) found in the Academia Latina de Beisbol (ALB) a second home far from home. The EBS went to Venezuela to learn a little of Caribbean ball. There, they both; the EBS and the ALB, decided to put some effort together to get a Dutch team in the Venezuelan Minor League during winter in the second largest pro-competition of this popular baseball country. The EBS and the ALB are both non-profit organization with the main goal of help poor kids in the Latino countries. After many conversations the Liga Paralela calls to the Netherlands they were accepted in the competition. The Liga Paralela is a competition that runs parallel to the big competition in the winter period. This competition is the AA and AAA of the Liga Venezolana de Beisbol Profesional; here is where you can see playing some big leaguers after the MLB competition is done. The ALB arranged and setup everything for the new team in the Liga Paralela. This team will be named ALB-Orkas BBC and will be the first non Venezuela-Americans team to participate in this competition. First plans were just for a Dutch team, but since the team got so much attention all over Europe the organizers decided to bring in prospects from outside the Netherlands too. Currently the league consists of 15 teams, including squads from the Major League organizations in Houston, Pittsburgh, New York (Mets), Detroit, Philadelphia, Tampa Bay and St. Louis. The ALB-Orkas BBC would be the next team.
