Baseball is the national sport. When Sammy Sosa arrived back from a successful season with the Chicago Cubs in 1998, cheering crowds lined the 40 km (25 miles) from the airport to his home.
1493. The island was discovered by Columbus on his second journey. Natives used to call it borinquen, and the discoverer named it after San Juan Baptist in tribute to Don Juan the Prince of Asturias.
The island was formerly inhabited by tainos, an agricultural people quickly killed off as a consequence of hard working conditions and diseases they had never come down with before and that had been brought by the Spaniards.
Baseball is the national sport. When Sammy Sosa arrived back from a successful season with the Chicago Cubs in 1998, cheering crowds lined the 40 km (25 miles) from the airport to his home.
