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

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The logo of the Picudos de Ceiba: a "C" in white bold type, shadowed in dark blue, on a blue circle decorated with a gradient of little crescents, bordered in white-blue-white.

Picudos de Ceiba

Ceiba Marlins

  • League: Betances.
  • Division: Noreste.
  • Nicknames: Picús, Blanquizules, El Cardumen.
  • Vivas: “¡Mete pico!”
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The marlin is not an especially favored fish in Puerto Rican cuisine, unlike the grouper and red snapper, but Ceiba’s isolation from the island’s road network and the resulting lack of butcher shops and meat markets gave it an outsized importance in the town’s diet and economy.

Mascot: Pesquilanza

(pez “fish” + pesquisa “investigation” + lanza“spear”)

Pesquilanza, the mascot of the Picudos de Ceiba, is a blue marlin with a blue back, fins, and tail, light blue markings down the side, and a white belly. His blue-eyed stare is quite worried.

Campeonatos de la LNP

None.

Liga Betances pennants

None.

Campeonatos de las Ligas

None.

Series Interdivisionales

1880 • 1884

Series Eliminatorias

1880 • 1881 • 1884 • 1886

División Sureste titles

1873 • 1875 • 1880 • 1881 • 1882 • 1884 • 1885 • 1886

Wild card berths

1874

Affiliated Teams (1916-)

Cork Salmon (Sraith Daorchluiche na hÉireann, C4F)
Yamatokoriyama 金魚 / Goldfish (Southern League, NYK)
Comesopas de Ceiba (División Rosendo Matienzo Cintrón, LVP)
Academia Municipal de Ceiba (División Hilario Elizarraraz, LVN)

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Notable Players

Sponsors

  • Marcos Marroquín: 1871-1902.
  • Espártaco Ovalle: 1902-

Stadia

  • Campo de los Picudos: 1871-