| Leones del Caracas | |||||
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| League | Venezuelan Professional Baseball League | ||||
| Location | Caracas, Venezuela | ||||
| Ballpark | Monumental Stadium of Caracas Simón Bolívar | ||||
| Founded | May 7, 1942 | ||||
| League championships | 21 (1947–48, 1948–49, 1951–52, 1952–53, 1956–57, 1961–62, 1963–64, 1966–67, 1967–68, 1972–73, 1977–78, 1979–80, 1980–81, 1981–82, 1986–87, 1987–88, 1989–90, 1994–95, 2005–06, 2009–10, 2022–23) | ||||
| Caribbean Series championships | 2 (1982, 2006) | ||||
| Interamerican Series championships | 1 (1950) | ||||
| Former name(s) | Cerveceria Caracas | ||||
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The Caracas Base Ball Club C.A., better known by its commercial name as the Leones del Caracas, is a professional baseball team of the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League (LVPB). The owner and sole shareholder of the sports club is Ricardo Cisneros, president of Ateneas Sports Holding.
Its name comes from the official name of the city of Caracas—Santiago de León de Caracas—which Diego de Losada assigned to it when it was founded in 1567. Consequently, a lion appears as a symbol on the representative coat of arms of the city of Caracas.
Los Leones del Caracas is a very popular team in Venezuela, and is the team with the most titles (21), and has runners-up (17), played finals (34), played post-seasons (3&). Second highest win percentage in the LVBP in regular season: (D-D 2187-2100 51%), post-season: (D-D 206-178 55.0%), finals (D-D 97-78 55.4%).
The team's colors are dark blue and gold and the crest features a lion, a symbol of the city of Caracas since 1591.[1]
- ^ González, Javier; Figueroa Ruiz, Carlos (2017). 101 razones para amar a los Leones y 10 motivos para ser antimagallanero (PDF) (in Spanish). Fondo Editorial Banesco. p. 25. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 June 2022.