Napoleón Calzado


Napoleón Calzado is a former Major League Baseball player for the Baltimore Orioles. He won the bronze medal in the 2000 Pan American Championship where this national team qualified for the 2001 Baseball World Cup.
Calzado played for the Orioles in the season. In four games, he had one hit in five at bats, playing the outfield. He batted and threw right-handed. He spent his entire career, except for a portion of with the Atlanta Braves, with the Orioles after being signed as an amateur free agent in. In December 2008, Calzado and 8 teammates on the dMedia T-Rex were accused of throwing games from the Chinese Professional Baseball League. On June 26, 2009, Calzado signed with the Long Beach Armada, Golden Baseball League in Long Beach, California. He played with the national team in the 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games played in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, winning the tournament's gold medal. During this tournament, Calzado was scouted and later signed by the Nicaraguan team Indios del Bóer to play the 2010–11 Nicaraguan Professional Baseball League season, helping his team to win the championship.