Why Tecolotes de los Dos Laredos split their home games between the U.S. and Mexico, making it the world's only fully binational pro baseball team.
In the 1940s, millionaire Jorge Pasquel integrated Mexican baseball teams. Now there’s a push to enshrine him in the Baseball Hall of Fame.Children who live on the Mexican side go to school on the U.S. side. Workers who live in the north have jobs in the south. And more international trade passes through Laredo — $24.6 billion in February alone — than any other U.S. port of entry.
“Absolutely,” said Tubbs, who moved to Laredo two years before the team did. “When I was still in my official position, I wrote letters to the city explaining exactly what it meant to the morale of my employees and the retention of my employees and for the city and how it improved the security between the two cities.”“When kids don’t have things to do, they usually get into mischief. [Baseball] gives something for the young kids in the city to look forward to,” he said.
Like many in Laredo, Treviño has long straddled the border, attending high school and junior college in Laredo but going to medical school in Mexico at a time when a passport wasn’t needed to go from one place to the other. As the health authority for Laredo during the COVID-19 pandemic, he created a program that vaccinated more than 300,000 people, not only in Laredo but in the Mexican states of Tamaulipas and Nuevo Leon as well, stalling a wave of infections.
“The newspapers, the media, [in the U.S.] gave us more publicity than we got in Mexico,” he said in Spanish. “So I said, ‘Why don’t we play there’?” The team has different offices, sponsors, concessionaires and staff on each side of the border, requiring not only a larger payroll than other Mexican League teams, but also a dizzying amount of coordination and cooperation to keep things humming.
On the Mexican side, small, narrow streets and crowded storefronts give way to wide boulevards flanked by strip malls and auto repair shops. A few miles to the north, the streets of Laredo’s historic city center are named for both U.S.
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