Picadero Damm
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Picadero Damm was the commercial name of the baseball
team from the Picadero Jockey Club in Barcelona
, Catalonia
(Spain
) during the heyday of baseball in Spain in the 1950s and 1960s. Picadero Jockey Club is now a defunct sports club who had also basketball and handball teams. The commercial name was due to its main sponsor, S.A. Damm
, a well-known Barcelona brewery.
Picadero Damm won the II Copa del Mediterráneo prize in 1965, two European Cups
(1963 and 1968) and three Spanish leagues
(1957, 1962 and 1964).
Baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...
team from the Picadero Jockey Club in Barcelona
Barcelona
Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...
, Catalonia
Catalonia
Catalonia is an autonomous community in northeastern Spain, with the official status of a "nationality" of Spain. Catalonia comprises four provinces: Barcelona, Girona, Lleida, and Tarragona. Its capital and largest city is Barcelona. Catalonia covers an area of 32,114 km² and has an...
(Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
) during the heyday of baseball in Spain in the 1950s and 1960s. Picadero Jockey Club is now a defunct sports club who had also basketball and handball teams. The commercial name was due to its main sponsor, S.A. Damm
S.A. Damm
S.A. Damm is a Spanish brewery founded in 1876. Its best known beer products include the following four:*Estrella Damm, formerly "Estrella Dorada", a pale beer, one of the most popular beers in the Barcelona area. It has been brewed since 1876. Its bottles and caps used to display a characteristic...
, a well-known Barcelona brewery.
Picadero Damm won the II Copa del Mediterráneo prize in 1965, two European Cups
European Cup (baseball)
The European Cup is an annual baseball tournament, sanctioned and created by the Confederation of European Baseball . The tournament features the top teams of the professional baseball leagues in Europe....
(1963 and 1968) and three Spanish leagues
Division de Honor de Beisbol
Division de Honor de Béisbol is the highest level of professional baseball in Spain. The league is overseen by the Real Federación Española de Béisbol y Sófbol. It is played principally on weekends. The teams play against each other twice, once at home and once away, in two games during the same day...
(1957, 1962 and 1964).