[1] He is also credited with saving baseball in Nicaragua after the first professional league collapsed in 1967, organizing the First Division amateur tournament (now the German Pomares Ordoñez Championship) starting in 1970.
While imprisoned in 1980, he was told that the sport would be included at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, due to the efforts of him and his successor, Robert Smith.
[1] An opponent of the Sandinistas, García was accused of heading an anti-communist militia known as the Fuerzas Armadas Democráticas (FAD) before his arrest.
[5] He was released in 1984, in part due to the efforts of FIFA President João Havelange, and made his way to the United States, where he was welcomed to the White House by Ronald Reagan.
"[8] García returned to Nicaragua in 1990, after the opposition won the elections, and became minister of the Nicaraguan Sports Institute (IND).