Dragones de Ciudad Trujillo were a professional baseball team in the Dominican Republic that played a single season in 1937.
The club was the result of a temporary merger between two existing teams, Tigres del Licey and Leones del Escogido, in the capital of Santo Domingo (then officially known as "Ciudad Trujillo" in honor of dictator Rafael Trujillo).
As more import players signed with Dragones, it caused a massive jump in the league's average pay.
At the outset of the 1937 campaign, the average Dominican ballplayer earned 24 pesos a month, and a regular foreigner between 50 and 150.
But as the campaign progressed, Trujillo resorted to extravagant salaries to attract American Negro leaguers.