Dragones de Ciudad Trujillo

Dragones de Ciudad Trujillo were a professional baseball team in the Dominican Republic that played a single season in 1937. The club was the result of a temporary merger between two existing teams, Tigres del Licey and Leones del Escogido, in the capital of Santo Domingo (then officially known as "Ciudad Trujillo" in honor of dictator Rafael Trujillo). The 1937 squad included several Negro league baseball players from the United States, and is considered one of the strongest baseball teams in Dominican history. However the team's exorbitant contracts directly led to the collapse of professional baseball in the country, which would not be re-established until the modern Dominican Professional Baseball League (LIDOM) was founded in 1951.