Leones del Caracas
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| Leones del Caracas Caracas Lions | |
| League: | Liga Venezolana de Béisbol Profesional |
| Founding: | July 16, 1952 |
| First Season: | 1952/1953 |
| City: | Caracas, Distrito Capital |
| Stadium: | Estadio Universitario de Caracas |
| League Titles: | 16 |
| 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 | |
| Serie del Caribe Titles: | 2 |
| 1982, 2006 | |
| Former Names: | Cervecería Caracas (1946-1952) |
| Future Names: | |
| President: | Ariel Prat Pinedo |
| General Manager: | |
| Manager: | Carlos Subero |
The Leones del Caracas are a Venezuelan winter league team that plays in the Liga Venezolana de Béisbol Profesional. The team was founded as Cervecería Caracas 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 lost four finals. All three 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.
Since 2001 the team was been owned by the Organización Cisneros.
[edit] Notable Players
- Bob Abreu
- Jesús Alfaro
- Antonio Armas (18 seasons)
- José de la Trinidad Bracho
- Chico Carrasquel (8 seasons)
- Roger Cedeño
- Pompeyo Davalillo (13 seasons)
- Víctor Davalillo (19 seasons)
- Bo Díaz (14 seasons)
- Andrés Galarraga (13 seasons
- Adrian Garrett
- Alex González
- Ubaldo Heredia (16 seasons)
- Carlos Hernández (15 seasons)
- Leo Hernández (6 seasons)
- Urbano Lugo
- Urbano Lugo Sr. (16 seasons)
- Alejandro Machado
- Gonzalo Márquez (19 seasons)
- Carlos Méndez
- Luis Peñalver
- Roberto Petagine
- Diego Seguí
- Pablo Torrealba (7 seasons)
- César Tovar (16 seasons)
- Manny Trillo (11 seasons)
- Ugueth Urbina
- Guillermo Vento
- Omar Vizquel (11 seasons)
[edit] External Links
!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 · Pastora de los Llanos · 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


