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2 unusual facts about Mexican League


Petroleros de Minatitlán

The Petroleros de Minatitlán (English: Minatitlán Oilers) are a AAA-level baseball team playing in the Mexican League.

Rojos del Águila de Veracruz

The Rojos del Águila de Veracruz (English: Veracruz Red Eagles) are a AAA-level baseball team playing in the Mexican League.


Amaury Cazana

Amaury Antonio Cazana Marti (born October 19, 1976) is a Cuban professional baseball player who plays for the Rojos del Águila de Veracruz in the Mexican League.

Ángel Berroa

Ángel Maria Berroa Selmo (born January 27, 1978) is a Dominican professional baseball infielder with the Leones de Yucatán of the Mexican League.

Barak Fever

In 2000, he finished his position in the statistics department and began to work as a commentator and reporter for soccer matches at the Mexican league, reporting directly from Spain in 2004 and 2005 during the performance of Mexican soccer players such as Rafael Márquez and Maribel Domínguez.

Fabio Castro

Fabio Enrique Castro (born January 20, 1985 in Monte Christi, Dominican Republic) is a Dominican professional baseball pitcher, who is with the Tigres de Quintana Roo in the Mexican League.

Gilberto Rondón

Following the season he was purchased from the Yankees by the Leones de Yucatán of the Mexican League, where he spent the 1979 season.

Ismael Valdez

Ismael (Alvarez) Valdéz (born August 21, 1973 in Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas) is a Mexican professional baseball pitcher for the Tigres de Quintana Roo in the Mexican League.

James Mouton

After spending 2002 in the minor leagues, Mouton played part of the 2003 season in the Mexican League with the Broncos de Reynosa before retiring.

Jerry Hairston, Sr.

He also played three years (from 1978 to 1980) with Durango of the Mexican League.

Jesús Delgado

Jesús Andres Delgado Corrales (born April 19, 1984 in Maracay, Venezuela) is a Major League Baseball pitcher who plays for the Rieleros de Aguascalientes of the Mexican League.

Jovanny Rosario

Jovanny (De Los Santos) Rosario (born April 12, 1985 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic is an outfielder for the Olmecas de Tabasco in the Mexican League.

Julián Ladera

He enjoyed three productive seasons with the Tecolotes de Nuevo Laredo and Leones de Yucatán of the Mexican League from 1956 through 1958, averaging 14 wins in each season, with a career-high 17 in 1957.

Lorenzo Barceló

Lorenzo Barceló (born August 10, 1977) is a professional baseball pitcher who is with the Rojos del Águila de Veracruz in the Mexican League.

Lou Klein

Only two months into the 1946 season, with the Cardinals in first place, he jumped to the Mexican League, along with teammates Max Lanier and Fred Martin.

Luis Olmo

In 1946, Olmo was among a group of players who were enticed to play in the Mexican League by the promise of higher salaries; they were suspended by Baseball Commissioner Happy Chandler for jumping the major leagues.

Orlando Miller

Miller continued to play in the minor leagues for eleven more seasons, including stints with the Mexican League's Guerreros de Oaxaca in 2000 and Olmecas de Tabasco in 2002.

Reggie Abercrombie

Reginald Damascus Abercrombie (born July 15, 1981) is a former Major League Baseball outfielder who currently plays for the Olmecas de Tabasco in the Mexican League.

Santiago Rosario

After that, he joined the Mexican League from 1973 through 1976, and also was a member of the Leones de Ponce Puerto Rican team that clinched the 1972 Caribbean Series.

Tracy Stallard

From 1967 to 1973, he played for several more minor league teams, including the Dallas-Fort Worth Spurs and High Point-Thomasville Hi-Toms, with stops in Torreón and Córdoba of the Class AAA Mexican League.

Tyler Graham

So far in 2013, Graham has played for York, the Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks and the Winnipeg Goldeyes of the American Association, and the Rojos del Águila de Veracruz of the Mexican League.

Víctor Álvarez

Víctor Aurelio Álvarez (born November 8, 1976) is a Major League Baseball pitcher who currently plays for the Rojos del Águila de Veracruz of the Mexican League.

Wascar Serrano

After pitching in 2003 for the independent Kansas City T-Bones of the Northern League, he pitched part of the 2005 season in the Mexican League for the Piratas de Campeche and the Leones de Yucatán before retiring.

Will Pennyfeather

as the Taipei Gida of the Taiwan Major League, the Broncos de Reynosa of the Mexican League, and teams in the independent Northern League and Atlantic League.

Yoanner Negrin

In 2012 he spent most of the season on loan to the Mexican League and pitched in 24 games (with 16 starts) for the Olmecas de Tabasco.


see also

Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes

The Baseball team Rieleros de Aguascalientes, return in 2012 to the Mexican League, previously win the championship in 1978.

Alpine Cowboys

In the days of segregation in Texas, Kokernot arranged for many exhibition games between traveling Negro League teams—led by such stars as Satchel Paige -- and visiting Mexican League teams.

Kit Pellow

In 2010, Pellow split the season between the Broncos de Reynosa in the Mexican League, the Tijuana Cimarrones of the Golden Baseball League, and the Schaumburg Flyers of the Northern League.

Max Lanier

Disappointed by poor playing conditions and allegedly broken contract promises, he tried to return to the Cardinals in 1948, but was barred by an order from commissioner Happy Chandler, imposing a five-year suspension on all players who had jumped to the Mexican League.

Randall Simon

Upon his release from the Phillies in spring training, Simon played in the Mexican League, for the Rojos del Águila de Veracruz and Potros de Tijuana.

Sandy Guerrero

In 2002, his final professional season, he played for the Mexican League's Olmecas de Tabasco.

Terris McDuffie

He later returned to Torreón in 1946 and played for the Aguilas de Veracruz in 1947, during what would be his last season in the Mexican League.

Veracruz Sporting Club

After the 1920s the Primera Fuerza decided to only admit clubs from the city of Mexico and so the club return to action in the local Liga Amateur de Veracruz were they managed to win 12 titles till the league folded in 1943 after the Mexican league in Mexico city was professionalize and allowed all clubs from the nation to take part in.