Navegantes del Magallanes


Navegantes del Magallanes B.B.C., commonly known as Navegantes del Magallanes, or simply Magallanes, are a professional baseball team in the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League, based in Valencia, Carabobo.
Originally founded in Caracas in, Magallanes relocated to Valencia in. The team is one of oldest and most successful clubs in Venezuelan baseball, winning 13 LVBP championships and 2 Caribbean Series.
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History

Early years

The Magallanes Base Ball Club was established on October 26, 1917 in Caracas. The name Magallanes, referring both to Ferdinand Magellan and the Strait of Magellan, was chosen by the founding members in a polling to select the club name; other proposed names were Colón and Diego de Losada, the founder of the city of Caracas. Antonio Benítez, one of the team's owners, proposed the name Magallanes in reference to the geographical location, suggesting that other teams would founder against them. The Magallanes Base Ball Club debuted the next year, 1918, in the National Baseball Championship. The club, however, would soon fold due to several problems including internal disputes.
It would be ten years until the next team under the name Magallanes debuted, refounded by Benítez, as an amateur club part of the new Venezuelan National League in 1927. The team played in a neighborhood of Caracas populated by immigrants from the former Ottoman Empire, earning them the nickname "Turcos". During this period, it developed a fierce rivalry with the cross-town Royal Criollo club, which would later evolved into the modern rivalry between Magallanes and Leones del Caracas. In 1930, the team won its first first division title, thanks to the pitching of Pancho Coimbre and Balbino Inojosa. However, the club again folded before the 1933 season.
The Magallanes name was again revived in 1941 by Carlos Lavaud. The club signed Vidal López, who had won 12 games in Cuba, and Carlos Ascanio, who had been playing in Cuba, as well as Dalmiro Finol, José Pérez Colmenares, and Jesus "Chucho" Ramos. Magallanes won the 1943–44 tournament.

Professionalization

Magallanes was one of the four original clubs to form the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League on December 27, 1945.
In 1969, Magallanes were acquired by a group of businessmen based in Carabobo state and moved to the city of Valencia, which had recently lost its team, Industriales de Valencia, before the 1969–70 season.

Mascot

The Capy is the official mascot of the Navegantes del Magallanes baseball team. The bird wears a navigator costume. He has a girlfriend named Lola, a very charming parrot.

Notable players

Navegantes del Magallanes Hall of Fame

Magallanes established a team Hall of Fame in 2012.
ClassYear of induction
BoldInducted into Major League Baseball Baseball Hall of Fame
Inducted into Venezuelan Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum

Other notable players