Coronations, memorable moments and legendary figures resalt the history and tradition of the Lions of the Escogido, team that these fairy tales number 100 years to have been founded.
Los Leones nacieron un 17 de febrero de 1921, con Carlos Manuel Bonetti Burgos (Pilindo), Luis Alfau, Gilberto Pellerano, Numa Parra, Domingo Sánchez, Federico Nina, José Sanz y Quico Caro entre sus fundadores.
Rafael Esteva was his first president.
In this era the Delco Lite, Los Muchachos and San Carlos teams were united, forming an ensemble that was crowned in 1922. From these encounters there is a history of excitas that broke 16 national champions and four series of the Caribbean, from 1951
“The history of Escogido is much greater than ours. It’s all history of a country. In 100 years this team has seen a lot of good people and a lot of love for this team, in addition to a fanatic who has always been there for the team to the maximum ever “, excelled the president of Escogido, José Miguel Bonetti Du- Breil.
The first coronations in the stage of the Dominican League will take place in the decade of the 50 (1955-56, 56-57 and 57-58), with figures like Felipe Rojas Alou, Willie Kirkland, Osvaldo Virgil.
Luego in the tournaments of 1959-60 and 1960-61 volvieron to win the trophy of champions, logging as well as the fifth title in the first six tournaments of both luces. Mateo Alou, Juan Marichal and Danilo Rivas made key pieces, as did Felipe and Jesús Alou. The decade of the 60th annual King Conquest of 1968-69, with Tito Fuentes between the main pieces.
On the principle of 80 (1980-81 and 81-82) the Escogido captured the crowns with Felipe directing, in those cases that included Tim Raines, Pedro Guerrero.
También also won monarchs in the 87-88, 88-89, 89-90 and 91-92 with Phil Reagan and Felipe in the season and with a number of drivers like Gerónimo Berroa, Rufino Linares, José Núñez, José DeLeón in Junior Noboa .
The escalated dynasty regressed to win the tournaments 2009-10, 2011-12, 2012-13 and 2014-15, all with Moisés Alou as general manager and with detached players from the valley of Wilkin Castillo, Mauro Gómez, Nelson Figueroa, Starling Marte , Fernando Tatis and others.
“We have the promise of custodian a franchise of a long-standing tradition like the Escogido, with a fanatic who is also involved in the great moments of this family”, said the club’s vice president, Eduardo Najri.
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Pelicula
To commemorate its 100th anniversary, the Lions will be presenting a documentary of their history at 6:30 p.m.
Medios
Escogido TV’s broadcasts, 1092 HD broadcasts from Claro and 476 HD from Altice, in addition to its social channels (@EscogidoBBClub) on its YouTube channel (Escogido Baseball Club).
The party
The SID Group, an activist of the Lions of the Escogido, celebrates the 100th anniversary of the 16th National Tournament of the Torneo Otoño-Invernal National Champions of the Dominican Republic.