It began over two decades ago. Major League Baseball became the trendsetters for the incorporation of regular season professional sports outside of North America. The year was 1996. In front of a crowd of almost 24,000 spectators, the San Diego Padres defeated the New York Mets by a score of 15-10, in a regular season game which took place in Monterrey, Mexico.
The three-game series set an idea in a motion of which to gain high profit. All professional sports leagues had to do was to travel outside the constraints of the United States. Following a single game in Monterrey in 1999, our beloved Cubbies went to the Tokyo Dome in Japan for a two-game series versus the New York Mets the following season.