As much as the rest of the nation, Santiago residents enjoy baseball and look forward to the Dominican winter season with the local team being the Aguilas Cibaeñas. Besides baseball, basketball is also played at a professional level in the city of Santiago. The institution in charge of organizing these events is the "Asociación de Baloncesto de Santiago de los Treinta Caballeros" (ABASACA) Santiago de Los Caballeros is the 2nd most successful city in the Dominican Republic based on Dominican League teams. Águilas Cibaeñas is the 2nd most successful baseball team not only in the Dominican Republic, but in the Caribbean, this team has 21 National Championship, and 5 Caribbean titles. This is what causes what a lot of people call Baseballs most intense rivalry, which is a long historic Rivalry between Águilas Cibaeñas and Tigres del Licey, being "Licey" the most popular winter league baseball team in the world, and Águilas Cibaeñas being second.