8/1:
We celebrate the new month with a broadcast unlike any you've seen:

After the 16 teams of #COPMUN1906 got whittled down to two, 🇲🇽 México visits 🇵🇷 Puerto Rico to decide the baseball champion of the world.

fun begins at 7:05 PM EDT:
www.twitch.tv/lnpgaceta

#COPMUN1906 Quarterfinals scores:

🇵🇷 PUR 5
☪️ SUL 1

🇩🇴 DOM 9
🇮🇪 IRL 1

🔱 NEP 7
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 ENG 5

🇲🇽 MEX 3
🇨🇺 CUB 1

The semifinals are next.

🇵🇷 Puerto Rico vs. 🇩🇴 República Dominicana
🇲🇽 México vs. 🔱 Neptunes

🇰🇭 An Thu's second hit of the night added another run to the 🔱 #Neptunes score, but if you think this is over, you haven't been paying much attention.

🇹🇰 Amosa Morilla goes for #COPMUN1906 immortality as he faces Dermot Mount (✳️ #JinetesTOB), Crampton, and Johns.

However, the leader in shutouts for #COPMUN1906 is none other than 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Joe White, whose 1-0 shutouts against the 🔱 #Neptunes and 🇭🇹 #Haiti did not do enough to get #Scotland into the Knockout Stage.

The #COPMUN1906 🇲🇽 México rotation won Grupo Delta on the strength of pitching back-to-back 6-0 shutouts against the 🔱 #Neptunes, on top of 🌄 Ted Balloon's against 🇨🇺 #Cuba.

This makes them:
- the only rotation to all pitch shutouts;
- responsible for half of the total shutouts in the Group Stage.

Two players hit home runs during the #COPMUN1906 Group Stage:

🇷🇺 Jake Gettman:
3,844 AB
124 career non-tournament HR
= 3.22% HR rate

🇵🇷 Jorge Lacayo:
1,392 AB
1 career non-tournament HR
= 0.07% HR rate

We're currently playing through the Quarterfinals.

🇩🇴 Guillermo García, currently of the ✝️ #SantosADJ, has the honor of scoring the first run in a #COPMUN1906 playoff game.

Current scores:

☪️ SUL 0 - 🇵🇷 PUR 0

🇩🇴 DOM 3 - 🇮🇪 IRL 1

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 ENG 4 - 🔱 NEP 0

🇲🇽 MEX 2 - 🇨🇺 CUB 1

Slide showing the 1906 Copa Mundial playoffs, which are knockout-stage, single-elimination games. If all you care about is these four games, they are: Puerto Rico (Alfa #1) vs. the Sultanes regional team (Beta #2) Ireland (Beta #1) vs. República Dominicana (Alfa #2) England (Gamma #1) vs. Neptunes regional team (Delta #2) México (Delta #1) vs. Cuba (Gamma #2) Records in the group stage: Grupo Alfa: Puerto Rico led with a 6-0 record; República Dominicana is next with 3-3; then the regional Internationales with 2-4 and Wales with 1-5. Grupo Beta: Ireland wins the group at 4-2; behind them, the Sultanes went 3-3. After them, Canada, also 3-3 but with a worse run differential, and then Venezuela at 2-4. Grupo Gamma: England also went 6-0; Cuba went 3-3; Jamaica 2-4 and the Soberanos regional went 1-5. Grupo Delta: You saw how Gamma was a mirror image of Alfa? Well, Delta is also a mirror image of Beta. México won the group at 4-2; the Neptunes regional are sitting at 3-3, as is Scotland, which had a worse run differential; Haiti is at 2-4.

The #COPMUN1906 knockout stage begins.

If we called it today, we'd say the finals are between those two traditional baseball powerhouses: 🇵🇷 Puerto Rico versus, uh, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England.

On the other hand, they call it sudden death for a reason.

Want to see how we got here?
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Available now: the last game from the #COPMUN1906 Group Stage!

Les Grenadiers de 🇭🇹 #Haiti take on the 🔱 #Neptunes for first place in Grupo Delta. You can really tell Dro hadn't slept in a couple days when he recorded it: the jokes fly fast and *very* loose.

Watch!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5Pu...

Here's where things get interesting.

To make a square field (4 groups of 4 teams), #COPMUN1906 authorities created four regional teams to allow players without national sides to compete:

🇪🇺 #Internationales (Europe)
🔱 #Neptunes (Asia/Oceania)
⛓️‍💥 #Soberanos (LatAm)
👳 #Sultanes (Middle East/Africa)

2025/07/23: ¿Qué Pasa? Liga Nacional Puertorriqueña published a post on Ko-fi

Our Gaceta summer crew has been grinding away behind the scenes, updating stuff on the blog and scheduling #COPMUN1906 games. They bring you news from the baseball mines.

Read on, and follow us for updates in your email inbox!
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December 21st:
We continue #COPMUN1906 with a classic matchup: the wily young pitching and speedy slap hitters of the Leones Caribeños de 🇨🇺 #Cuba against an 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 #England lineup full of muscular gap-splitting batsmen.

Will it be a good year for the Roses? Check it out:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMF7...

December 20th:
🇨🇦 #Canada and 🇮🇪 #Ireland get their first look at #COPMUN1906 live action.

Given who's in the lineup for both teams, we expected an all-out slugfest, with both teams trading punches and counterpunches right up to the end.

What actually happened? Watch:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHMz...

A roster chart with all the players signed up for the Vinotintos de Venezuela, including position, age, handedness, current team and rating. Rotation: Jonás Corona (17/L/Maracay), 56 Próspero Beltrán (16/R/Nueva Esparta), 51 Ferdinando Osuna (19/R/Coro), 51 Bullpen: Ambrosio Artayett (19/L/Mérida), 52 Adán Ávalos (19/R/Maturin), 58 Disibodo Bermúdez (20/R/Puerto La Cruz), 49 Gualter Firmino (23/L/Nueva Esparta), 53 Aniceto La Chataigneraie (18/L/Naguabo), 38 Catchers: Diógenes Ramírez (23/L/Mérida), 60 Penn German (18/L/Caracas), 65 Starting infield: Rubén Sagastume (23/R/Caracas), 72 Guonçale Markl (23/S/Guatire), 63 Baltasar Santos (23/R/Angostura), 70 Celedonio Torres (22/R/Guatire), 74 Starting outfield: Inocente Chávez (22/R/Barquisimeto), 69 Marco Dueñas (20/L/Puerto La Cruz), 72 Bonifazio Caccio (18/S/Angostura), 80 Backups: Ramón Álvarez (16/R/Maracaibo), 71 Cristino Herrera (23/R/Angostura), 64 Vicente Segovia (17/R/Maracaibo), 70

The Vinotintos de Venezuela's uniforms. Home: White jersey with dark red pinstripes, buttons, numbers in a quirky modern font on the back, and raglan sleeves (on which the pinstripes are gold, like their undershirts) with Venezuela flag patch on the left sleeve; dark red "Venezuela" wordmark in a thick script font with accompanying swash bordered in gold and then black. White pants with the same pinstripes, dark red belt with gold buckle. Dark red socks with a thick gold stripe bordered by two medium white stripes. Dark red caps with a gold curvy "V" next to a (viewer)-right-facing arc of eight gold stars. Roads: dark red jerseys with subtle dark red pinstripe, numbers, gold buttons and (unpinstriped) raglan shoulders piped in navy-white-navy with the same Venezuela flag patch on the left sleeve, and navy undershirt. Venezuela wordmark is in the same font, but white with gold border this time. Dark red pants with the same pinstripes and gold belts with navy buckles; gold socks with thick navy stripes bordered in medium white stripes, in turn themselves bordered in thin navy stripes. Gold caps with burgundy curvy V and eight-star arcs.

Next up, let's go to Grupo Beta, where the Vinotintos de 🇻🇪 #Venezuela have put together an inaugural #COPMUN1906 side almost entirely from their own league—which began operations in 1906! We've got a young-but-filthy pitching staff backed by a starting outfield that'll live in opponents' nightmares.

🇷🇺 Jake Gettman's résumé
(updated 12/20/1906):

1x Ilustrísimo (1905 Hostos)
3x Valentísimo (1902, 1903 RF, 1905 LF)
5x Campeón (1902, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906)

1,276 career hits
131 career HR
383 career SB
156 career wRC+

1906 🇪🇺 #Internationales selection
(NEW!) first home run in #COPMUN1906 history

December 19th:
You know why that "(sanctioned)" is there?

🇲🇽 #México was playing international baseball in the 1890s—long before #COPMUN1906.

For Game 2, with old friend Ted "Loony Balloony" Balloon on the mound, El Tri faces the 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴 Aon-adharcaich of #Scotland.

Watch!
youtu.be/zefM7jOGJH4

#COPMUN1906 games available for leisure watching!

December 18th, 1906:
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Dreigiau Cymru of #Wales make history by taking on the 🇵🇷 Borinqueños de #PuertoRico in the first-ever (sanctioned) international baseball game!

Great pitching vs. excellent hitting in Game 1:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRcj...

A roster chart with all the players signed up for the Aon-adharcaich na h-Alba, including position, age, handedness, current team and rating. Rotation: Ewan Mackenzie (33/R/Coamo), 49 Euan Sharp (22/R/Barinas), 48 Joe White (23/R/Guanajuato), 46 Bullpen: Ben Buchanan (20/L/Naguabo), 37 Charlie Calder (22/L/Culebra), 50 MacKenzie Mackay (17/R/Nueva Esparta), 64 Lewis Nicol (21/R/Sonora), 52 Daniel Thomson (16/R/Santa Fe), 54 Catchers: Michael Reid (30/R/Aibonito), 80 Daniel McLachlan (23/R/Santa Isabel), 62 Starting infield: Aiden Anderson (22/R/Nuevo Laredo), 62 Adam McKinnon (20/R/Naguabo), 40 Byron Wood (22/R/Mayagüez), 63 William Brown (21/R/Coahuila), 59 Starting outfield: Ross Jones (27/L/Morovis), 44 Nathan Dunn (22/R/Fajardo), 53 Danny Johnstone (19/R/Hormigueros), 58 Backups: James Ritchie (24/R/Isabela), 60 Sam Thompson (33/R/Barranquitas), 56 Cameron McMillan (25/R/Adjuntas), 61

Uniforms for the Aon-adharcaich na h-Alba. Home: White jerseys with blue buttons and raglan shoulders (because we forgot Raglan is in Wales), with thick white stripes bordered in black down each shoulder and a Scotland flag patch on the left sleeve. Black undershirts. The number on the back (which is 69 [nice]) is in blue roundish sans-serif font with thin white and black borders; the "Alba" wordmark on the front is in a thicc script font literally called Sonsie (look it up) One, with a swash underneath, and goes from blue to black as it moves across the chest. White pants with blue black-buckled belt and black-bordered racing stripes down the sides. Blue socks with black-and-white argyle pattern. Blue caps with white brims and a white unicorn head on the front. Road: Blue jerseys with white buttons and raglan shoulders, piped at collar and sleeves in blue-black-white as you head downwards. "Alba" wordmark and number remain in the same font, but they're white this time. Blue pants with a white black-buckled belt and a black-bordered white racing stripe down each side; black socks with a blue-white argyle pattern on them. Caps and undershirts the same.

Next up, also in Delta, is the only team to carry three full-time catchers into #COPMUN1906: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #Scotland.

The Unicorns recruited from four leagues (PR/MX/VZ/La Frontera), which suggests they won't make disproportionate noise—but they've got the backstops and bullpen to put up a fight for the group.

A roster chart with all the players signed up for the Borinqueños de Puerto Rico, including position, age, handedness, current team and rating. Rotation: Isidoro García (25/L/Las Marías), 65 Efraín Calderón (19/L/Salinas), 65 Rafael García (22/L/Isabela), 61 Bullpen: Jorge González (24/L/Salinas), 69 Nerón Jiménez (41/R/Rincón), 56 Raúl Mora (23/R/Guayama), 62 Teodoro Morales (21/L/Naranjito), 61 Próspero Sisneros (21/L/Toa Baja), 61 Catchers: Jesús Lucio (30/R/Cidra), 76 Fulco Baca (31/R/Quebradillas), 71 Infielders: Antenor Juárez (29/R/Cidra), 78 Albán López (18/R/Orocovis), 80 Cedro Martín (34/R/Vieques), 65 Benigno Valdez (28/L/Naguabo), 75 Outfielders: Jorge Lacayo (29/L/Trinidad), 77 Vidal Santiago (29/R/Naguabo), 73 José Rodríguez (26/S/Las Marías), 78 Backups: Hernando Cabrera (42/R/Juana Díaz), 65 Fulco Escobedo (45/R/San Juan), 51 Noé Barragán (40/L/Gurabo), 46

The Puerto Rico home and road uniforms for the Copa Mundial. Home: white jerseys with spiky red "PR" graphic on the left breast, red numbers (in a slightly dialed-down Gothic font) and buttons, a sky-blue undershirt, red sleeves with sky-blue-sky piping on both the shoulder and arm ends and a PR flag patch on the left sleeve; white pants with a red belt with sky buckle and a sky-blue stripe down the side; socks striped vertically in red and white, with sky-blue diamonds on each side containing the white star of the PR flag, and a sky-blue cap with red brim and the spiky "PR" design in white. Road: sky-blue jerseys with white undershirts, red sleeves (unpiped, though still with a PR patch on the left sleeve), red buttons, and numbers in white on the back; on the front, instead, is the word "Borinquen" (Taíno name of Puerto Rico) in bright white, with a red swash underneath it. Sky-blue pants with red belt and white buckle, with a white racing stripe bordered in red down the side. Red socks with three thick white stripes, each bordered in sky-blue. Red cap with the white spiky "PR" design and a sky-blue brim.

You already saw this one, but they're just as good as ever: despite notably lacking a single national champion pitcher, 🇵🇷 #PuertoRico is nonetheless built for wrecking shop here. A southpaw-heavy staff could prove troublesome, but that lineup is going to do immense damage to #COPMUN1906 baseballs.

A thread of the #COPMUN1906 teams, rosters, and uniforms.

We forgot to say this our first time around, but it was @leaguex.bsky.social who gave us the idea to paste pictures from Excel spreadsheets.

If we're going to prettify all this data entry, might as well post it, are we right?

After the 3rd inning:

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 #Wales 2
🇵🇷 #PuertoRico 1

So far, surprisingly, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Brandon "Litterbug" Payne has held Los Borinqueños to a few walks and hits, but he's not breaking.

Will the Puerto Ricans answer in the middle of the game?

Come watch!
twitch.tv/lnpgaceta

#COPMUN1906

A roster chart with all the players signed up for the Borinqueños de Puerto Rico, including position, age, handedness, current team and rating. Rotation: Isidoro García (25/L/Las Marías), 65 Efraín Calderón (19/L/Salinas), 65 Rafael García (22/L/Isabela), 61 Bullpen: Jorge González (24/L/Salinas), 69 Nerón Jiménez (41/R/Rincón), 56 Raúl Mora (23/R/Guayama), 62 Teodoro Morales (21/L/Naranjito), 61 Próspero Sisneros (21/L/Toa Baja), 61 Catchers: Jesús Lucio (30/R/Cidra), 76 Fulco Baca (31/R/Quebradillas), 71 Infielders: Antenor Juárez (29/R/Cidra), 78 Albán López (18/R/Orocovis), 80 Cedro Martín (34/R/Vieques), 65 Benigno Valdez (28/L/Naguabo), 75 Outfielders: Jorge Lacayo (29/L/Trinidad), 77 Vidal Santiago (29/R/Naguabo), 73 José Rodríguez (26/S/Las Marías), 78 Backups: Hernando Cabrera (42/R/Juana Díaz), 65 Fulco Escobedo (45/R/San Juan), 51 Noé Barragán (40/L/Gurabo), 46

The Puerto Rico home and road uniforms for the Copa Mundial. Home: white jerseys with spiky red "PR" graphic on the left breast, red numbers (in a slightly dialed-down Gothic font) and buttons, a sky-blue undershirt, red sleeves with sky-blue-sky piping on both the shoulder and arm ends and a PR flag patch on the left sleeve; white pants with a red belt with sky buckle and a sky-blue stripe down the side; socks striped vertically in red and white, with sky-blue diamonds on each side containing the white star of the PR flag, and a sky-blue cap with red brim and the spiky "PR" design in white. Road: sky-blue jerseys with white undershirts, red sleeves (unpiped, though still with a PR patch on the left sleeve), red buttons, and numbers in white on the back; on the front, instead, is the word "Borinquen" (Taíno name of Puerto Rico) in bright white, with a red swash underneath it. Sky-blue pants with red belt and white buckle, with a white racing stripe bordered in red down the side. Red socks with three thick white stripes, each bordered in sky-blue. Red cap with the white spiky "PR" design and a sky-blue brim.

First, of course, we take a look at the tournament hosts.

Despite notably lacking a single national champion pitcher, 🇵🇷 Puerto Rico is nonetheless built for wrecking shop here. A southpaw-heavy staff could prove troublesome, but that lineup is going to do immense damage to #COPMUN1906 baseballs.

2025/07/16: Copa Mundial de 1906 - Overview Liga Nacional Puertorriqueña published a post on Ko-fi

Interested in following the #COPMUN1906 tournament? Here's a quick rundown of how it all works, including the structure of the playoffs and small blurbs for each of the sixteen teams.

ko-fi.com/post/2025071...

On the left, on a green field, the Welsh (divided in half: top white, bottom green, red dragon over both) and Puerto Rican (three horizontal stripes of red alternating with two of white; to the left, a triangle in sky blue containing a white star) flags stand at opposition with their respective wordmarks: a black curvy font bordered in gold that says "Cymru" ("Wales") for Wales, and a spiky steel-gray "PR" for Puerto Rico; on the right, the logo Louisa designed for the Copa Mundial, which is a silver metal trophy, tall and spindly with a jut in the middle of its stem, containing a blue-and-green globe stitched in white like a baseball, backed by a yellow-and-orange sunburst, in front of which stands the tall black text "Copa Mundial."

7/18 (that's tonight!):
What happens when the second-best pitcher in his family gets to face the LNP's home run leader?

Tune in and find out! We kick off #COPMUN1906 with the toughest pairing in the entire tourney:

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Y Dreigiau at
🇵🇷 Borinqueños

fun begins at 7:05 PM EDT
www.twitch.tv/lnpgaceta

Starting this Friday, the Twelve Baseball Countries of 1906—unless you're an LNP head, it's unlikely you'd guess most of them—take each other on for fun, bragging rights, and prizes for best uniforms.

I'm already practicing saying "Y Dreigiau" over and over again for Friday. Come watch! #COPMUN1906

2025/07/16: Copa Mundial de 1906 - Overview Liga Nacional Puertorriqueña published a post on Ko-fi

On Friday, we start the 1906 Copa Mundial with a hell of a Game 1: 🇵🇷 Puerto Rico vs. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Wales.

Yes, the Welsh have a national baseball team in this 1906.

More importantly, the Welsh have a fantastic national baseball team in this 1906.

Want to find out more about the #COPMUN1906 field? Read on: