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04/28/2004 Archived Entry: "Mexican League News: All Star Game"
Mexican League News: All Star Game By Carlos Fragoso
All Star Game is coming soon
Next May 6th, the City of Torreon, home of the Cowboys team will be hosting the 72nd edition of Mexican League All Star Game, when the two Divisions face up, and will also rule up which division will be playing at home during playoffs, in this case the winners will host losers.
First all star game played ever in Mexican League was back in 1939 , when Juan Guerrero, pitching for the Olivero´s all star team, beat Cuban ace Ramon Bragaña 1-0 in a11 innings memorable game, pitching for the Carmona´s all satr team. The team names were under Managers last names, Ernesto Carmona and Manuel Oliveros, one of the founders of this league.
Afterwards there has been several all star games, in which numbers of great players participated in, players of the tales of Booker McDaniels, won pitching in 1946 for the foreigners team beating Mexicans 11-8,, Raymond Brown (Negro Leagues), toured his quality in 1946 and 1949, winning both games.
Alvin Jackson, then a major league prospect, won the 1956 edition, former Cleveland Indian Stan Williams, pitched and won in 1958, another Indian great and Red Sox, Luis Tiant, before getting the big leagues, made his own winning in 1961.
More recently, then Texas League prospect Cory Liddle won the 1995 edition when they beat the Mexican League Stars 5-1. Luke Prokopec and Craig Ainsworth a two very familiar names in today´s major league baseball, did the same in 2001.
ALL STAR TEAMS:
North Division South Division
Catchers
Noé Muñoz (SAL) Saul Soto (MXC)
Adán Amezcua (SLP) Adan Muñoz (TIG)
1st Base
Morgan Burkhart (SAL) Guillermo Garcia (TIG)
Pat O'Sullivan (SLP) Pedro Castellano (MXC)
2nd base
Miguel Flores (MTY) Oscar Robles (MXC)
Pedro Meré (AGS) Osvaldo Morejon (YUC)
3rd base
Ramon Orantes (MTY) John Evans (TAB)
Carlos Villalobos (PUE) Juan Melo (VER)
Shortstop
Julio César Hernández (TIJ) Javier Robles (TIG)
Nick García (SAL) Ivan Cervantes (OAX)
Left Fielders
Jayson Bass (SAL) Many Martinez (TIG)
Abraham Valencia (TIJ) Luis Arredondo (YUC)
Center Fielders
Darrell Sherman (PUE) Donzell McDonald (TAB)
Demond Smith (MTY) Greg Martinez (OAX)
Right Fielders
Izzy Alcántara (LAG) Matias Carrillo (TIG)
Scott Bullett (MTY) Victor Bojorquez (MXC)
DH´s
Bubba Smith (MTY) Roberto Saucedo (MXC)
Rudy Pemberton (MVA) Hector Castañeda (YUC)
Managers
Dan Firova Bernie Tatis (MXC)
Enrique Reyes, Miguel Solís, Gerardo Sánchez. Coaches Houston Jiménez , Mario Mendoza, Luis Fdo. Mendez
UPDATES:
With only two more series remaining to end the first half, the Puebla Tigres swept the Tabasco Olmecas and took over the South Division leading spot, Red Devisl come close to Tigers , away only 1 game behind them.
In a roster move, Tijuana trying to reinforce their position signed former big leaguer, Puerto Rico´s Armando Rios, and released Darryl Brinkley, who was later signed by San Luis, Tigers signed Venezuelan Bryan Rekar and released Luis Estrella.
Standings
As of April 26
Source: Mexican League
North W L PCT
Puebla 28 12 .700
Monterrey 23 16 .590
Saltillo 23 16 .590
Tijuana 21 19 .525
Laguna 17 23 .425
Monclova 17 24 .415
San Luis Potosi 16 24 .400
Aguascalientes 15 26 .366
South W L PCT
Tigres 25 16 .610
Mexico City 24 17 .585
Tabasco 22 19 .537
Oaxaca 21 20 .512
Veracruz 19 22 .463
Campeche 19 22 .463
Yucatan 18 23 .439
Cancun 16 25 .390
Replies: 5 comments
Regarding attendance figures from 2003 season, total reported attendance were a little higher than 3 millions, with 108 games season, and 16 teams.
Average per game were 1755, best attendance average reported per game were in Saltillo, 11387,second best Monterrey with 9651,Yucatan 6303, and worst Campeche 1224.
Mexico City Devils had 1617 attendants per game.
But again, Those are figures reported by teams, god only knows if those are reliables or not.
My guess is that, best attendance average are better and worst are worster.If you´r interested to follow some games of Mexican League, tune ESPN-2, wednesday and thursday, 9pm ET, and you´ll realize what I mentioned here.
Posted by Carlos Fragoso @ 04/30/2004 08:48 PM EST
Castelleno, Burkhart, Bullet and
Pemberto have all played in Japan.
And didn't Manny Martinez once play in Taiwan?
Also, Alcantara's name has come up as a possible addition to one of the Japanese teams. It will be interesting to see if he decides to make the jump like Ivan Cruz did.
Posted by Gary Garland @ 04/30/2004 02:25 AM EST
Attendance in Tijuana has been so far so good, averaging 5000 fan per game, in the opener they reported full house (12,000), unfortunately there is no confident reports in attendance from the rest of the teams available, but I would guesss that best places attendance wise are, Saltillo, Yucatan, Veracruz,Puebla Tigers,Monterrey who could be in that same average than Tijuana. Worst place Mexico City, who can hardly get 1000 fans per game in regular season, the rest od places are around 2-3,000.
Posted by Carlos Fragoso @ 04/29/2004 09:45 PM EST
Are there any attendance figures for Tijauna and/or the Mexican League?
Posted by Robert @ 04/29/2004 07:28 PM EST
One correction to make on this update, Bryan Rekar is American not Venezuelan as I wrote, so I apologize for that
Posted by Carlos Fragoso @ 04/28/2004 07:31 PM EST
