The Sultanes de Monterrey (English: Monterrey Sultans) are a

professional baseball Professional baseball is organized baseball in which players are selected for their talents and are paid to play for a specific team or club system. It is played in baseball league, leagues and associated farm teams throughout the world. Moder ...

club in the

Mexican League The Mexican Baseball League (, or LMB, ) is a professional baseball league in Mexico. It is the oldest running professional sports league in the country. The league has 20 teams organized in two divisions, North and South. Teams play 114 games ...

(LMB) based in

Monterrey Monterrey (, , abbreviated as MtY) is the capital and largest city of the northeastern Mexican state of Nuevo León. It is the ninth-largest city and the second largest metropolitan area, after Greater Mexico City. Located at the foothills of th ...

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. Established in 1939 as Carta Blanca, the Sultanes have won ten LMB titles, most recently in 2018. From 2019 to 2025, the club also fielded a team in the

Mexican Pacific League The Mexican Pacific League (, or LMP), also known as the Liga ARCO Mexicana del Pacífico for sponsorship reasons, is a professional baseball Winter league baseball, winter league based in Northwestern Mexico. The league comprises 10 teams. It wa ...

(LMP), which plays a winter league schedule; they were the easternmost team to participate in the LMP.

History

The team was formed on 20 May 1939, as Carta Blanca (a local beer brand, owned by Cervecería Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma which owned the team). The team was renamed to Industriales in 1942. In 1948 it was renamed again to their current name, Sultanes. The team was also known as the Gray Ghosts. The team won its first championship in 1943. In total, the Sultanes have collected ten championships (1943, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1962, 1991, 1995, 1996, 2007. and 2018), including three straight (1947–1949) under the legendary Cuban manager

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. During the seasons from 1989 to 1994 both the Sultanes and the Industriales played in the Mexican League for Monterrey.

Mexican Pacific League

On 27 January 2019, during a rally at the

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, Mexican President

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announced that the

Algodoneros de Guasave The Algodoneros de Guasave () are a professional baseball team in the Mexican Pacific League (LMP) based in Guasave, Sinaloa. They won the league championship in 1972. The original team was purchased in April 2014 by a group of investors led by ...

would return to compete in the

beginning in the 2019–20 winter season. The Sultanes were announced as the other team to join the league, bringing the total number of LMP teams to ten. A draft was later held to fill the team, making it a different roster than the one that competes in the Summer league. In April 2025, it was announced that the Sultanes' LMP franchise would relocate to

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, marking the end of the Sultanes' participation in the Mexican Pacific League after six seasons.

Roster

Retired numbers

The Sultanes de Monterrey have retired the following numbers:

Championships

Average home league attendance

The Sultanes have led LMB in average per game attendance every season from 2012 through 2017.

References

External links

* {{Authority control Baseball teams in Mexico Sports clubs and teams in Monterrey Baseball teams established in 1939 Mexican League teams 1939 establishments in Mexico