Cardenales de Lara
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| Cardenales de Lara Lara Cardinals | |
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| League: | Liga Venezolana de Béisbol Profesional |
| Founding: | 1942 |
| First Season: | 1965/1966 |
| City: | Barquisimeto, Lara |
| Stadium: | Estadio Antonio Herrera Gutiérrez |
| League Titles: | 4 |
| 1990/1991, 1997/1998, 1998/1999, 2000/2001 | |
| Serie del Caribe Titles: | 0 |
| none | |
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| President: | Humberto Oropeza |
| General Manager: | Carlos Oropeza |
| Manager: | Omar Malavé |
The Cardenales de Lara are a Venezuelan winter league team that plays in the Liga Venezolana de Béisbol Profesional. After Venezuela won the Serie del Caribe in 1941 and as baseball gained popularity in the country, Don Antonio Herrera Gutiérrez founded the club in the following year. The team was based in Carora, Lara. The team played in the Liga Occidental until its collapse and then joined the LVBP as part of league's first expansion in 1965. The Cardenales were the only Western team to make the jump. It took the team 25 years to win its first title, against the Leones del Caracas. In the late 1990s the team won three titles in five years.
The team's fans are called the mar rojo (red sea) due to the distint color of the team.
[edit] Notable Players
- Luis Aponte
- Miguel Cairo
- Giovanni Carrara
- Antonio Castillo
- Kelvim Escobar
- Edwin Hurtado
- Alexis Infante
- Luis Leal
- Robert Pérez
- Carlos Santeliz
- Luis Sojo
- Faustino Zabala
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!colspan=2 style="background-color:#BFD7FF;"|Liga Venezolana de Béisbol Profesional
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|align=right|División Occidental:||Tigres de Aragua · Cardenales de Lara · Bravos de Margarita · Águilas del Zulia
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|align=right|División Oriental:||Caribes de Anzoátegui · Leones del Caracas · Tiburones de La Guaira · Navegantes del Magallanes
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|- align=center |colspan=2|Related Articles: Salón de la Fama
