The logo of the Liga Nacional Puertorriqueña: a big sky-blue circle, bordered in red and white, surrounding a smaller circle of darker blue with white borders, superimposed on which is a red-and-white nautical star that hosts the acronym "LNP" in black block letters.

Gaceta de la Liga Nacional Puertorriqueña

150 years of baseball, all in one place:
a Puerto Rico free since the Grito de Lares.

The logo of the Canarios de Hatillo: a capital "H" in white Western font with slight protuberances out of the sides and a curved middle stroke, bordered and shadowed in red, on a navy circle bordered in white-dark red-white.

Canarios de Hatillo

Hatillo Canarians

  • League: Betances.
  • Division: Norte.
  • Nicknames: Canas, Toreadores, La Bucólica.
  • Vivas: “¡Santa Cruz!”
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turquoise

Hatillo was founded by Don Agustín Ruiz Miranda, an immigrant from the Canary Islands, with the explicit purpose of creating a municipality devoted to Puerto Rico’s nascent dairy industry. His success would bring the town prosperity in the first years of the Republic.

Campeonatos de la LNP

None.

Liga Betances pennants

1894

Campeonatos de las Ligas

1876 • 1894 • 1895 • 1911

Series Interdivisionales

1874 • 1876 • 1894 • 1895 • 1897 • 1911

Series Eliminatorias

1874 • 1876 • 1882 • 1894 • 1895 • 1897 • 1906 • 1909 • 1911

División Norte titles

1874 • 1875 • 1876 • 1877 • 1879 • 1886 • 1890 • 1892 • 1897 • 1901 • 1906 • 1909 • 1911

Wild card berths

1880 • 1882 • 1889 • 1891 • 1893 • 1894 • 1895 • 1896 • 1902

Affiliated Teams

Albuquerque Dukes (Santa Fe Circuit, LoFF)
Newport Pilot Whales (Rhode Island Circuit, BLNE)
Tritones de Hatillo (División Manuel Corchado y Juarbe, LVP)
Academia Municipal Esteban Alvarado (División Felipe Esquibel, LVN)

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Notable Players

Sponsors

  • Gerardo Buitrago, padre: 1871-1905.
  • Gerardo Buitrago, hijo: 1905-

Stadia

  • Terreno de los Canarios: 1871-1910.
  • Coliseo Gerardo Buitrago: 1910-