Tigres de Cartagena | ||||
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Information | ||||
League | Colombian Professional Baseball League | |||
Location | Cartagena, Colombia | |||
Ballpark | Estadio Once de Noviembre | |||
Founded | 1994 | |||
League championships | 6 (1995-96, 2003-04, 2004-05, 2005-06, 2006-07, 2013-14) | |||
Latin American Series championships | 2014 | |||
Colors | Red, White | |||
Ownership | Team Rentería USA[1][2] | |||
Manager | Jhonatan Solano | |||
President | Nabil Baladi | |||
Uniforms | ||||
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The Tigres de Cartagena (Cartagena Tigers) are a baseball team in the Colombian Professional Baseball League (LPB), playing in the Caribbean city of Cartagena de Indias. The team was founded in 1996 and plays at the Estadio Once de Noviembre. Its main rival is Caimanes, which plays in neighboring Barranquilla.[3]
Several Colombian MLB players have played for Tigres, including Gio Urshela, Harold Ramírez, Meibrys Viloria, and brothers Jolbert and Orlando Cabrera. For a time, the team was managed by former MLB All-Star Bill Madlock.[4]
In 2014, the team made history by winning the first international club title for Colombia, defeating Mexico's Brujos de Los Tuxtlas in the Latin American Series.[5]