Navegantes del Magallanes B.B.C., commonly known asNavegantes del Magallanes (Spanish pronunciation:[naβeɣantesdelmˌaɣaʎˈanes];Magellan Navigators), or simplyMagallanes, are aprofessional baseball team in theVenezuelan Professional Baseball League (LVBP), based inValencia,Carabobo.

Navegantes del Magallanes
Information
League	Venezuelan Professional Baseball League
Location	Valencia
Ballpark	Estadio José Bernardo Pérez
Founded	1917(original) 1964(modern incarnation)
Caribbean Series championships	1970,1979
League championships	1950, 1951, 1955, 1970, 1977, 1979, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2002, 2013, 2014, 2022
Current uniforms
Home Away

Originally founded inCaracas in1917, Magallanes relocated to Valencia in1969. The team is one of oldest and most successful clubs in Venezuelan baseball, winning 13 LVBP championships and 2Caribbean Series.

The Magallanes Base Ball Club was established on October 26, 1917 inCaracas. The name Magallanes, referring both toFerdinand Magellan (known as Fernando Magallanes in Spanish) and theStrait of Magellan, was chosen by the founding members in a polling to select the club name; other proposed names were Colón (honoringChristopher Columbus) andDiego 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).^[1] 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.^[2][3]

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.^[4] 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 andLeones del Caracas.^[5] In 1930, the team won its first first division title, thanks to the pitching ofPancho Coimbre andBalbino Inojosa.^[6] However, the club again folded before the 1933 season.^[7]

The Magallanes name was again revived in 1941 by Carlos Lavaud.^[8] The club signedVidal López, who had won 12 games in Cuba, andCarlos Ascanio, who had been playing in Cuba, as well asDalmiro Finol,José Pérez Colmenares, andJesus "Chucho" Ramos.^[9] Magallanes won the 1943–44 tournament.

Magallanes was one of the four original clubs (along withCerveceria,Vargas, andVenezuela) to form theVenezuelan Professional Baseball League on December 27, 1945.^[10]

In 1969, Magallanes were acquired by a group of businessmen based inCarabobo state and moved to the city of Valencia, which had recently lost its team,Industriales de Valencia, before the 1969–70 season.^[11]

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

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Magallanes established a team Hall of Fame in 2012.^[14][15]

• Javier González; Carlos Figueroa Ruiz.Campos de Gloria: El beisbol en Venezuela, 127 años de historia 1895-2022(PDF) (in Spanish). Biblioteca Digital Banesco.

• Official site
• Viento en Popa. Non-Official site