Pinar_del_Río_Vegueros

Vegueros de Pinar del Río

Vegueros de Pinar del Río

Cuban professional baseball team

Vegueros de Pinar del Río (English: Pinar del Río Tobacco Growers) is a baseball team in the Cuban National Series. Based in the western city of Pinar del Río, the Vegueros are historically one of the more successful teams in the Cuban National Series, winning ten championships, most recently in 2014. It is also the only Cuban team to win a Caribbean Series in the National Series era (post-1961).

Quick Facts Information, League ...

History

Vegueros were founded in 1969, and were one of the most successful teams in the early years of the National Series, considered along with Industriales, Santiago de Cuba and Villa Clara. They won their first title in 1978 and would do so five more times in the next decade, including back-to-back wins in 1981 and 1982 and playoff wins in 1987 and 1988. In 1986, the first year that the Cuban champion was determined by playoffs, Vegueros sensationally lost in extra innings against Industriales.

Prior to the 1992-93 Cuban National Series, two teams competed in the province of Pinar del Río: Forestales (also known as Pinar del Río during some seasons) and Vegueros. A 1992–1993 contraction of the league, in which eight teams were eliminated, caused Vegueros and Forestales to be combined into a single team.

In 2015, Pinar del Río won the Caribbean Series, becoming the first Cuban winner since 1960.

Roster

More information 2020–21 Cuban National Series ...

Past stars

Emigrants

Several Pinar del Río players have left Cuba for the North American Major Leagues.

References


    Stub icon

    This article about a baseball team in Cuba is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
    Share this article:

    This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Pinar_del_Río_Vegueros, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.