Capitanes de Mayagüez

Mayagüez Captains

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• League: Hostos.
• Division: Oeste.
• Nicknames: Capis, Mangoteros, Rojizules.
• Cheers: “¡Vamos Capitanes!”

Photo credit: Yamil Rivera.

LNP championships

1881 • 1885

Liga Hostos pennants

1876 • 1881 • 1885

Campeonatos de las Ligas

1876 • 1881 • 1885

Series Interdivisionales

1876 • 1879 • 1881 • 1885

Series Eliminatorias

1874 • 1875 • 1876 • 1878 • 1879 • 1880 • 1881 • 1882 • 1885

División Oeste titles

1871 • 1872 • 1873 • 1874 • 1875 • 1876 • 1877 • 1878 • 1879 • 1880 • 1881 • 1882 • 1883 • 1884 • 1885 • 1886

Wild Card berths

None.

During the war, Major Tomás Antúnez Rodríguez, garrison commander in Mayagüez, led an arduous overland march to reinforce the exhausted Army of Liberation. The small companies in the march, and resulting high percentage of officers, gave the town’s team its name.