The Ostioneros de Guaymas was a professional baseball club based in
Guaymas
Guaymas () is a city in Guaymas Municipality, in the southwest part of the state of Sonora, in northwestern Mexico. The city is south of the state capital of Hermosillo, and from the U.S. border. The municipality is located on the Gulf of Califo ...
, a city located in the southwest part of the state of
Sonora
Sonora (), officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Sonora ( en, Free and Sovereign State of Sonora), is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the Administrative divisions of Mexico, Federal Entities of Mexico. The state is d ...
,
Mexico
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.
The Ostioneros were one of the four original founding members of the
Mexican Pacific Coast League, a minor league circuit that operated in
Mexico
Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...
in the seasons from 1945–46 through 1957–58.
[Mexican Baseball History 3: The Mexican Pacific League]
''Baseball Mexico''. Article by Bruce Baskin. Retrieved on November 7, 2018. The team won pennant titles in the 1947–48 and 1950–51 seasons,
managed by Juan Guerrero and Luis Montes de Oca, respectively.
[Campeones de la Liga del Pacífico]
''ESPN Deportes'' (in Spanish). Retrieved on November 7, 2018.
Before the 1958–59 season, the circuit was renamed Sonora Winter League and lasted through the 1991–92 season.
[ This is considered the beginning of the modern era of what is now the ]Mexican Pacific League
The Mexican Pacific League (), known as Liga ARCO Mexicana del Pacífico for sponsorship reasons or simply LMP for its acronym in Spanish, is a professional baseball winter league based in Northern Mexico. The ten-team regular season schedule run ...
. The Guaymas club also competed in this second stage, winning titles in 1958–59 and 1959–60 guided by Manuel Magallón, in 1962–63 and 1964–65 with Guillermo Frayde at the helm, and 1967–68 with Ronaldo Camacho, to won seven league titles in both stints.[
The Ostioneros name has since been used by other sport clubs based in Guaymas.
]
Notable players
*Sid Monge
Isidro Monge Pedroza (born April 11, 1951) is a Mexican retired Major League Baseball relief pitcher who pitched from 1975 to 1984. He played for the California Angels, Cleveland Indians and Detroit Tigers, all of the American League and the Ph ...
*Andrés Mora
Andrés Mora Ibarra (May 25, 1955 – June 12, 2015) was a Mexican professional baseball outfielder. He played all or part of four seasons in the majors, between and , for the Baltimore Orioles and Cleveland Indians of Major League Baseball ( ...
*Enrique Romo
Enrique Romo Navarro (born July 15, 1947) is a Mexican former professional baseball relief pitcher who played for the Seattle Mariners (1977–78) and Pittsburgh Pirates (1979–82). Romo batted and threw right-handed. He was born in Santa Rosal ...
Sources
Further reading
*Bjarkman, Peter (2005). ''Diamonds around the Globe: The Encyclopedia of International Baseball''. Greenwood.
External links
ESPN Deportes
Baseball teams in Mexico
Defunct baseball teams in Mexico
Baseball teams established in 1945
Sports clubs disestablished in 1992
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