Liga Cubana - 8/12 team fictional league. early 20th century

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"A more modern and more popular nickname for the city is Pueblo de los brujos ("town of witches" or "town of warlocks") or Pueblo brujo ("witch town"). This nickname traces its origins to a popular story that tells that residents of the city would bring a kind of leaf called hoja bruja ("witch leaf") to baseball games to "scare" the opposing team by pretending to cast spells on them. The town's baseball team then adopted the hoja bruja as their symbol.[7] Another story tells that the nickname comes from a legendary baseball player from the city's local team, Moncho El Brujo, who according to legend owed his success as a pitcher to witchcraft.[9] Regardless of the origin of the nickname, residents of Guayama are often called brujos and their basketball team now carries the name Brujos de Guayama ("Guayama Warlocks").[10]"


logo based on children's book The Witch in the Tower by Julia Sardi

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This one is named after Eugenio de Hostos, who I learned about from Bad Bunny

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I have a couple more Venezuelan teams to make, and then there will be enough teams for me to have one major Caribbean league with enough minor league teams for each team.

[BBGiovanni]

Great stuff for a very under-developed (uni wise) region of the OOTP megaverse! I've thought occasionally about a modern version of the old pre-Castro Cuban league and this would be a great plug-in.

PS. I think it would be "Invitados"...

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Thanks!

Several of these Cuban teams have more modern versions in the other thread. No reason I can't add updated modern logos for the second Havana team, Holguin, Cienfuegos and Santa Clara to my list lol

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Originally Posted by 20_range

aka the Gran Liga after Gran Colombia


This league would then start a few years after that. These all have future versions, except Santa Marta which I just made today - the idea there is a 19th century military name (the city is associated with Bolivar who died there), and then later it doubles as the name of a local bird.

notes:
Sabios is named after a real team
I previously made a Maracaibo Relampagos/Catatumbos team, but I think Zulia Rayos is a much better name (also basically the name of several soccer teams that have played there)
Tigrillos and Moros - I have read about every baseball league in the region during this project. Many of them have teams with indigenous branding (as Cleveland Boston etc did in this period). For example, Mayaguez, Managua, two in Venezuela. This is a much more complex topic in former Spanish colonial areas than it is in the United States and I am definitely not qualified to talk about it. For plausibility it would be correct to have a team named Indios, especially for example in a city named Cartagena de Indias, but I didn't want to make one. Tigrillos is my compromise. You can see how easily the T in that monogram could become a I.
Moros - my attempt to make a relatively non-pc historical identity. I figured an early baseball team might take on this identity in an "approving, tribute" well-meaning type way. They use Ottoman symbolism, and will be rebranded. basically based on Indios de Boer (see above) and the London rugby team Saracens, among others. Anyway don't worry I drew a vulture for their rebrand!
Also every baseball league in the world has a tigers team, but I prefer local animals, hence the tigrillo. The giants will start out generic and then become named for a local animal
Santa Marta - the Santa Marta SM logo is based on a US monogram made by user flyinglamprey on the sportslogos board. it uses the colors from the Santa Marta flag

Some stray teams I have for this league, in various stages of being finished. Once Barranquilla, Caracas, Valencia and Maracaibo move to the Caribbean major league, they need to be replaced in this league/ each needs at least one minor league team.


Osos de Bucaramanga and Santa Marta - if I get to it eventually, I would draw a bear and a bird for these. Right now they only have monograms.
Caracas Amarillos - yellow and burgandy version

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I've used a bunch of vintage American team names in this league (similiar to say, the Tigres and Cardinales of the real life Caribbean leagues), and what better one to use than this multilingual word?


Replaces the Bravos in the real Venezuelan League


The team is actually named Perfectos because Cumaná is the birthplace of Armando Galarraga.


I'm like 60 teams into this project, and this is possibly the last one, so I've finally drawn a palm tree

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Capybara team (to be improved as well)

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replaces the Caribes


"Barcelona is located in the state of Anzoátegui along the northern coast of Venezuela, near the foothills of the western cordillera region. Its northern ocean boundary is peppered with many beaches, including Isla de Plata, Conoma, Arapito, Cangrejo, Lecherias and Playa Mansa, which cater to the tourist industry or local populations."


originally made for blindsay as the Baltimore Claws


small white logos are to the left, invisible on message board

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Originally Posted by 20_range

Thanks!

Several of these Cuban teams have more modern versions in the other thread. No reason I can't add updated modern logos for the second Havana team, Holguin, Cienfuegos and Santa Clara to my list lol

Source: a 1917 issue of the Cuban magazine Social

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That last one was from the art of Conrado Massaguer, so here he is as a logo himself, which also fits the concept of an Elegantes team.


plus Armando Galarraga smiling at the ump in the same style

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A few random updates for these leagues
Elegantes won the first three championships in my test league so I made them a new H.
adapted from the title card of a Harold Lloyd film (I go looking for ornate letters now to recreate)

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a new and improved capybara

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League of the Islands, a new logo for a Caribbean minor league team (ie when I move teams around, the ones that don't go in the majors can go here)

colors from the amazing flag of the West Indies Federation

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been trying out making a lot of simple letter logos

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The last three are kind of fun, I wanted more minor league teams but well I kind of ran out of ideas for more Cuban teams. So I thought I'd make a few representing the Cuban ex pat communities of the early 20th century, I have three.


(Miami didn't really exist yet, wikipedia shows its population as 1,681 in 1900.)

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colors from city flag

small logo invisible on right

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colors from city seal

[eelsage]

great work on these letter logos! they're so elegant

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Originally Posted by eelsage

great work on these letter logos! they're so elegant

Thanks! I have.. more. This is some good encouragement for me to get them into posting order