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The Marianao baseball club played in the Cuban Professional League between the 1922–1923 and 1960–1961 seasons. The club represented the populous town of Marianao in Havana and played their games at La Tropicana Stadium, official site of the league.〔Cuban Baseball – A Statistical History, 1878-1961 – Jorge S. Figueredo. Publisher: McFarland & Company, 2003. Format: Softcover, 552pp. Language: English. ISBN 978-0-7864-6425-8〕 ==History== According to some baseball historians, the Elefantes de Marianao (Marianao Elephants) was the first nickname used by the team. Although it is a little studied topic, the 1923-24 Billiken baseball card set〔(CubanBall.com – 1923-24 Billiken Cards )〕 includes pictures 15 cards each for each team that participated in the Cuban league during that season: Almendares, Habana, Santa Clara and Marianao. Indeed, Marianao players are wearing a uniform that shows the head of a white elephant on dark background.〔 At some point, the team wore gray uniforms and was recognized as the Marianao Frailes Grises (Grey Monks),〔 probably a nickname based on the color of the robes of the Dominican and Augustinian monks that founded Marianao in 1719.〔(FreeDictionary.com – Marianao, Cuba. The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia® Copyright © 2007 )〕 Then, in 1948 the franchise was renamed as the Tigres de Marianao (Marianao Tigers), as they are usually cited, and also used a new uniform. Their flannels had black and orange piping with matching socks, perhaps recalling also those of its emblem, the ''tiger''.〔The Pride of Havana: A History of Cuban Baseball – Roberto González Echevarría. Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1999. Format: Hardcover, 464pp. Language: English. ISBN 0-19-506991-9〕 The team contended until the 1960–1961 period, during what turned out to be the Cuban League's final season.〔Cuban Baseball – A Statistical History, 1878-1961〕 The Marianao squad participated in 27 Cuban league seasons, finishing in first place four times, second place six times, third place seven times, and in fourth place a league record ten times. The team posted a 729-861 record in 1,590 games for a .458 winning percentage, which was the worst mark of the four Cuban league teams to play over 1,000 games.〔 Marianao, managed by Merito Acosta, won its first title in the 1922–1923 season, to become the only team after Habana to win the league championship in its inaugural season. They earned its second championship in the 1936–1937 campaign, managed by Martin Dihigo, and clinched consecutive titles in the 1956–1957 and 1957–1958 seasons, guided by Napoleón Reyes. The latter two seasons they won the Caribbean Series, the only Series where they participated, becoming also the first team to win twice in the event's history.〔 Following the 1959 Cuban Revolution, political tensions rose with the Fidel Castro government. In March 1961, one month after the regular Cuban baseball season ended, the regime decreed the abolition of professional baseball in Cuba.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Marianao (Cuban League baseball club)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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