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Baseball in Venezuela originates with the early twentieth century cultural influence of United States oil companies, introduced in the country at the end of the 1910s and at the beginning of the 1920s by American immigrants and workers from the exploding oil industry in the country.
The Venezuelan champion moves on to the Caribbean Series to face the champions of the baseball leagues of the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Panama and Colombia. Venezuelan teams have won the Caribbean Series eight times, most recently in 2024 by the Tiburones de La Guaira, after having won the LVBP title during the 2023–24 season.
The Venezuela national baseball team (Spanish: Selección de béisbol de Venezuela [2] or Selección de Venezuela) [3] is the national team of Venezuela. [4] It is currently ranked sixth in the world by the World Baseball Softball Confederation, behind Chinese Taipei and ahead of the Netherlands.
Since 1939, over 400 Venezuelan baseball players have played in Major League Baseball. This list shows players who appeared in at least one game in MLB, including number indicating order of arrival, name of player, position, starting team, and dates of debut and final game. Abbreviations for position P: Pitcher C: Catcher; 1B: First baseman
Since that “heroic” moment, the major spark of the sport of baseball escalated itself to be Venezuela's dominant sport. [1] The Venezuelan Professional Baseball League was established in 1945, with Leones del Caracas the leading team; another leading club is Valencia's Navegantes del Magallanes, established in 1917.
The institution is located at Centro Sambil, in Valencia, the capital city of Carabobo State and the third largest city of Venezuela. [1] The museum offers visitors the origins and growth of baseball in the world and the history of what is known as the National sport of Venezuela. It also shows, through its exhibitions, the most prominent ...
Through 2024, the Caracas team has won 21 championship titles (3 as Cervecería Caracas and 18 as Leones del Caracas), more than any other team in Venezuelan Professional Baseball League history. In the 2015-16 season, they became the club with the highest average home attendance in the league, with an average of 10,845. [2]
Besides Venezuela, the circuit included the Cervecería Caracas, Navegantes del Magallanes, and Sabios de Vargas teams. The Patriotas were owned and established by Juan Antonio Yanes , one of the early pioneers of professional baseball in the country, who also managed his team in parts of two seasons.