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Navegantes del Magallanes

Venezuelan professional baseball team

Summary

Venezuelan professional baseball team

Field	Value
name	Navegantes del Magallanes
cap_logo	Insignia de los Navegantes del Magallanes.svg
location	Valencia
league	Venezuelan Professional Baseball League
founded	(original)
(modern incarnation)
nicknames	La Nave Turca ("The Turkish Ship")
Turcos ("Turks")
stadium	Estadio José Bernardo Pérez
league_champs	1950, 1951, 1955, 1970, 1977, 1979, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2002, 2013, 2014, 2022
series	Caribbean Series
series_champs	1970, 1979
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h_pants	1C39BB	h_pattern_pants=_pinstripesonwhite
h_socks	1C39BB
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(modern incarnation) Turcos ("Turks")

Navegantes del Magallanes B.B.C., commonly known as Navegantes del Magallanes (; Magellan Navigators), or simply Magallanes, are a professional baseball team in the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League (LVBP), based in Valencia, Carabobo.

Originally founded in Caracas in , Magallanes relocated to Valencia in . The team is one of oldest and most successful clubs in Venezuelan baseball, winning 13 LVBP championships and 2 Caribbean Series.

History

Early years

The Magallanes Base Ball Club was established on October 26, 1917 in Caracas. The name Magallanes, referring both to Ferdinand Magellan (known as Fernando Magallanes in Spanish) and the Strait of Magellan, was chosen by the founding members in a polling to select the club name; other proposed names were Colón (honoring Christopher Columbus) and Diego de Losada, the founder of the city of Caracas. Antonio Benítez, one of the team's owners, proposed the name Magallanes in reference to the geographical location, suggesting that other teams would founder against them (as ships do in the difficult-to-navigate strait). The Magallanes Base Ball Club debuted the next year, 1918, in the National Baseball Championship. The club, however, would soon fold due to several problems including internal disputes.

It would be ten years until the next team under the name Magallanes debuted, refounded by Benítez, as an amateur club part of the new Venezuelan National League in 1927. The team played in a neighborhood of Caracas populated by immigrants from the former Ottoman Empire, earning them the nickname "Turcos" (Turks). During this period, it developed a fierce rivalry with the cross-town Royal Criollo club, which would later evolved into the modern rivalry between Magallanes and Leones del Caracas. In 1930, the team won its first first division title, thanks to the pitching of Pancho Coimbre and Balbino Inojosa. However, the club again folded before the 1933 season.

The Magallanes name was again revived in 1941 by Carlos Lavaud. The club signed Vidal López, who had won 12 games in Cuba, and Carlos Ascanio, who had been playing in Cuba, as well as Dalmiro Finol, José Pérez Colmenares, and Jesus "Chucho" Ramos. Magallanes won the 1943–44 tournament.

Professionalization

Magallanes was one of the four original clubs (along with Cerveceria, Vargas, and Venezuela) to form the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League on December 27, 1945.

In 1969, Magallanes were acquired by a group of businessmen based in Carabobo state and moved to the city of Valencia, which had recently lost its team, Industriales de Valencia, before the 1969–70 season.

Mascot

The Capy is the official mascot of the Navegantes del Magallanes baseball team. The bird wears a navigator costume. He has a girlfriend named Lola, a very charming parrot.

Current roster

https://magallanesbbc.com.ve/roster.php updated on 27 November 2025

(First Base) (Catching) (Third Base) (Hitting) (Pitching) (Bench) (Bullpen) (Quality Control)

Venezuela 2022 Caribbean Series Roster	Players	Coaches

Championships

Season	Manager	Record	Series
score	Runner-up
1949–50	Lázaro Salazar	32–14	—	Cerveceria Caracas
1950–51	Lázaro Salazar	34–19	—	Cerveceria Caracas
1954–55	Lázaro Salazar	32–18	—	Leones del Caracas
1969–70	Carlos Pascual	32–28	3–0	Tiburones de La Guaira
1976–77	Don Leppert	35–30	4–2	Tiburones de La Guaira
1978–79	Octavio Rojas / Willie Horton	39–31	4–1	Águilas del Zulia
1993–94	Tim Tolman	35–25	4–3	Leones del Caracas
1995–96	Tim Tolman / Gregorio Machado	29–31	4–3	Cardenales de Lara
1996–97	John Tamargo	33–17	4–1	Leones del Caracas
2001–02	Phil Regan	30–32	4–1	Tigres de Aragua
2012–13	Carlos García / Luis Sojo	36–37	4–3	Cardenales de Lara
2013–14	Luis Sojo / Carlos García	33–30	4–1	Caribes de Anzoátegui
2021–22	Wilfredo Romero	33–30	4–3	Caribes de Anzoátegui

Notable players

Retired numbers

11
[](luis-aparicio)
SS
Retired	15
[](felix-rodriguez-baseball)
IF
Retired	21
[](luis-garcia-third-baseman)
SS
Retired	23
[](nestor-chavez)
OF
Retired

Navegantes del Magallanes Hall of Fame

Magallanes established a team Hall of Fame in 2012.

Class	Bold
Year of induction
Inducted into Major League Baseball Baseball Hall of Fame
Inducted into Venezuelan Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum

Navegantes del Magallanes Hall of Fame	Class	Name	Position
		P	1941–1945 (amateur)
1946–1955 (professional)
	OF	1946–1956
	Manager	1949–1959
	P	1953–1956
	3B	1949–1965
	2B	1968–1977
	3B	1969–1975
****	OF	1974–1977
	OF	1968–1976
	OF	1977–1980
	Executive	1941–1956
	Executive	1969–2007
	Executive	1969–1992
	Broadcaster
		1B	1972–1989
	P, Coach	1969–1974 (player)
1974–2010 (coach)
	OF, 1B	1969–1974
	Executive
		P	1972–1983
	OF, 1B	1976–1979
	Executive
		Executive
	SS	1992–1996
	IF, Manager	1987–1998 (player)
2009–2014 (manager)
		P
	Executive	1977–1979
	P	1993–2003
	UTIL	1991–2004
		Executive	1982–1989
	OF	1991–2012
	P	1987–1998
	UTIL	1991–2012
		Executive	1964–1969
	3B	1996–2011
	2B
	SS	1949–1953
		P	1998–2002
	OF / Manager	1978–1980
		C	1986–2005
	P	1964–1968

Other notable players

Jose Altuve, infielder
Sam Nahem (1915–2004), Major League Baseball pitcher
Endy Chávez, MLB outfielder
Luis Arráez, MLB infielder
Leonardo Reginatto, infielder
Reynaldo Rodríguez, infielder
Ezequiel Carrera, outfielder
Elvis Andrus, infielder
Pablo Sandoval, infielder
Johan Santana, pitcher
Freddy Garcia, pitcher
Luis Raven, infielder
Mario Lisson, infielder
Emilio Cueche, pitcher
Barry Bonds, outfielder
Luis Aparicio Sr., infielder
Luis Rengifo, infielder
Félix Hernández, pitcher
Billy Bean, outfielder
Cito Gaston
Kenny Lofton

References

Bibliography

References

González and Ruiz, p. 139
(2017). "Magallanes Contra Viento y Marea: 100 años de Historia 1917-2017". Fondo Editorial Banesco.
González and Ruiz, p. 141
González and Ruiz, pp. 185–86
González and Ruiz, p. 44
González and Ruiz, pp. 198–212
González and Ruiz, pp. 225–26
González and Ruiz, p. 248
González and Ruiz, p. 248
"Historia".
(12 January 2021). "Hace 75 años se jugó el primer encuentro en la LVBP".
(5 November 2014). "Magallanes anuncia Acto de Exaltación al Salón de la Fama".
https://www.lvbp.com/roster.php?team=696
"Salón De La Fama De Los Navegantes Del Magallanes".
(17 December 2023). "Exaltadas Clase 2019 y 2023 del Salón de la Fama de Magallanes".

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