Pops Club de Béisbol was a baseball

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 club in Lloret de Mar

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, where there were many descendants of immigrants from Cuba

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.

Its founders were Nasi Brugueras and Alex Colomer from Barcelona

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, and its sponsor and president was Roque Romero, a stockbroker born in Mendavia

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, Navarre

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. Roque Romero remained as president of the Pops club until its demise and for a while also became chairman of the Catalan Baseball Federation. This now defunct baseball club was active during the heyday of baseball in Spain

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 in the 1950s and 1960s. But owing to mass-interest in football, Pops baseball club did not survive into the 1970s and its field was converted into a field for the local football team.

Pops won the local Campionat de Catalunya (Catalan Championship) in 1955.