Opening Day went well for the Fundadores, after all was said and done—but it’s still one day, and now they get to face the first week of the 1872 season.
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1871: Week 6 / Semana VI
There’s nothing like a met expectation, and if Ángel Venegas was going to salvage anything from this season, it was knowing that he’d done exactly what he was predicted to do—with four games left to go.
1871: Week 5 / Semana V
The arrival of Agustín Espinosa, with whom we’ll spend time later on, brings interesting ideas into the Rincón clubhouse. Will they turn the season around?
1871: Week 4 / Semana IV
The late season is upon the Ingenieros, and a mysterious stranger appears. Does he promise help for a turnaround? No. Not exactly, anyway.
1871: Week 3 / Semana III
Rincón, as part of the La Milicia region, gains an unlikely cheerleader—both because he doesn’t live in town, and because who would cheer on this team?
1871: Week 2 / Semana II
As the Ingenieros headed into their second week, they had attained a unique distinction—and not a positive one. To improve on it, they’d have to work fast.
1871: Week 1 / Semana I
39 teams lost their first game of 1871. The Ingenieros, though, would spend the rest of that week ensuring everyone knew they were like no other team.
1871: Opening Day / Inauguración
The first day of any LNP season takes some reacclimation. For Ángel Venegas, the manager of the Ingenieros de Rincón, this season would take far, far more.
1871: Preseason / Antetiempo
When teams rely on very, very basic factors—height, weight, size, speed and strength—to make their decisions, interesting things happen. Here’s two of them.
1871: Ingenieros de Rincón
Some teams went into the first season of the Liga Nacional Puertorriqueña with an idea of what they were doing. Then there’s the Ingenieros de Rincón.