Baseball, the Major League Baseball Players Association, and other professional baseball leagues and their players associations around the world, including the Puerto Rican Professional Baseball League. The first event was organized in 2006, and was sanctioned by the International Baseball Federation. Puerto Rico won the silver medal on both 2013 and 2017 classics. The Hiram Bithorn Stadium in San Juan, Puerto Rico hosted 22 Montreal Expos home games in , after the league decided to relocate the team to San Juan as part of an experiment to "globalize" baseball. During the series there was an average attendance of 14,222. List of players This includes 22 baseball players from Puerto Rico (plus 2 of them unknown) that played in the Negro Leagues for the period between 1920 to 1948 and another 368 in the American or National League from 1942 to the present day, for a total of 392 players. It is important to mention that some players from the negro leagues are not included in the list because they are still under research, since no evidence has been found so far of any participation in at least a single game in an organized baseball league. While 303 players were born on the island, plus the 2 negro leaguers unknown (Pérez and Villafañe), the list also includes players born on the mainland US or its territories to Puerto Rican parents (both or one of them) or that have grandparents from Puerto Rico. Also, the list includes Puerto Rican players with Dominican, Cuban or other countries heritage. Puerto Ricans typically consider the diaspora as their own. A–E F–L M–Q R–W Other players related to Puerto Rico but not included in the list The following baseball players were not considered for the official list of Puerto Ricans in Major Leagues: Guillermo Angulo- When he played for the 1929 Pelayo Chacon's Stars of Cuba, this was an Independent Barnstorming (road) team and not affiliated to any official negro league. Joe Arroyo (pitcher)- This 1938 Cuban Stars pitcher is still on-going research. Tomás "Añil" Bonilla- According to historians, he played as a catcher for the Philadelphia Stars in 1949. Not eligible for this year the league were not recognized as major. Alex Bregman- Fluently speaking in Spanish, the Houston Astros star told the press his interest in playing for Puerto Rico for the World Baseball Classic, yet is not eligible due to only his grandmother's