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Leones del Caracas
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| Leones del Caracas Caracas Lions | |
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| League: | Liga Venezolana de Béisbol Profesional |
| Founding: | May 10, 1942 |
| First Season: | 1946 |
| City: | Caracas, Distrito Capital |
| Stadium: | Estadio Universitario de Caracas |
| League Titles: | 20 |
| 1947/1948, 1948/1949,1951/1952, 1952/1953, 1956/1957, 1961/1962, 1963/1964, 1966/1967, 1967/1968, 1972/1973, 1977/1978, 1979/1980, 1980/1981, 1981/1982, 1986/1987, 1987/1988, 1989/1990, 1994/1995, 2005/2006, 2009/2010 | |
| Serie del Caribe Titles: | 2 |
| 1982, 2006 | |
| Former Names: | Cervecería Caracas (1946-1952) |
| Future Names: | |
| President: | Luis Ávila |
| General Manager: | Juán Vicente Zerpa |
| Manager: | Frank Kremblas |
The Leones del Caracas ("Caracas Lions") are a Venezuelan winter league team that plays in the Liga Venezolana de Béisbol Profesional. The team was founded as Cervecería Caracas ("Caracas Brewery") in 1942. With sixteen championships, the most in league history, the Leones are the most successful and one of the most popular teams (along with Navegantes del Magallanes) in the country.
Cervecería was one of the league's most successful franchises in the league's early years winning three pennants and losing four finals. Two of its wins came against the Navegantes del Magallanes In 1952, Cerveza Caracas sold its team to Pablo Morales and Oscar Prieto Ortiz and Estadio Universitario de Caracas was built. The Leones still uses the ballpark, which it shares with the Tiburones de La Guaira. As Caracas and Magallanes ended up 1st or 2nd for five consecutive seasons from 1947/1948 through 1952/1953, they became permanently linked to each other in a rivalry known as Los Eternos Rivales (The Eternal Rivals). This is by far the most heated rivalry not only in Venezuelan Baseball but all Venezuelan Sport, even being deemed by some foreign players from USA, Dominican Republic, and Venezuelan MLB players as the most heated rivalry in the world of Baseball.
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[edit] Retired Numbers
- 1 - Pompeyo Davalillo
- 2 - Víctor Davalillo
- 6 - Gonzalo Márquez
- 8 - Urbano Lugo
- 11 - Luis Aparicio (Retired League Wide)
- 12 - Cesar Tovar
- 17 - Alfonso Carrasquel
- 20 - Antonio Armas
- 23 - Omar Vizquel
- 25 - Baudilio Díaz
- 41 - Andrés Galarraga
[edit] Notable Players
- Bob Abreu
- Jesús Alfaro (15 seasons)
- Jesús Alou
- Mateo Alou
- Antonio "El Potro" Álvarez
- Luis Ernesto Aparicio Montiel
- Antonio Armas (18 seasons)
- Damaso Blanco (5 seasons)
- José "Carrao" Bracho (6 seasons)
- Asdrubal Cabrera
- Dagoberto Campaneris
- Alfonso "Chico" Carrasquel (8 seasons)
- José Castillo (11 seasons)
- Roger Cedeño (10 seasons)
- Pompeyo Davalillo (13 seasons)
- Víctor Davalillo (19 seasons)
- Baudilio Díaz (14 seasons)
- Dalmiro Finol
- Andrés Galarraga (13 seasons)
- Adrian Garrett
- Alex González
- Franklin Gutierrez
- Juan Carlos Gutiérrez
- Jesus Guzman
- Ken Harrelson
- Ubaldo Heredia (16 seasons)
- Carlos Hernández (15 seasons)
- Leonardo Hernández (6 seasons)
- Josh Kroeger
- Urbano Lugo (16 seasons)
- Urbano Lugo Sr. (12 seasons)
- Alejandro Machado
- Gonzalo Márquez (19 seasons)
- Jackson Melian (6 seasons)
- Carlos Méndez (15 seasons)
- Aurelio Monteagudo (5 seasons)
- Orber Moreno
- Teodoro Obregón (6 seasons)
- Luis Peñalver (15 seasons)
- Roberto Petagine (7 seasons)
- Pete Rose
- John Roseboro
- Marco Scutaro (6 seasons)
- Diego Seguí (10 seasons)
- Jose Tartabull (5 seasons)
- Luis Tiant (3 seasons)
- Pablo Torrealba (7 seasons)
- César Tovar (16 seasons)
- Jesús Marcano Trillo (11 seasons)
- Ugueth Urbina
- Guillermo Vento
- Omar Vizquel (13 seasons)
[edit] Notable Managers
- Felipe Alou
- Alfonso Carrasquel
- José Casanova
- Pompeyo Davalillo
- Martin Dihigo
- Dave Hudgens
- Phil Regan
- Carlos Subero
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