1940s The Azules de Veracruz were established in 1940 by
Jorge Pasquel, a prominent businessman and baseball fan born in
Veracruz. Pasquel named his team Azules and chose blue as the club's color, to compete with the other team from Veracruz:
El Águila de Veracruz. Pasquel also hired
Martín Dihigo as the team's first player-manager, who had previously played for El Águila in 1939. El Águila and
Cafeteros de Córdoba did not approve Pasquel's actions to have another team in Veracruz and split from the
Mexican League, forming another competition known as Liga Cismática (Schismatic League), where they were joined by
Alijadores de Tampico,
Agrario de México,
Tigres de Comintra and
Puebla. However, Pasquel bought the
Parque Deportivo Veracruzano for his Azules to play, leaving El Águila without a baseball park. The Azules, however, only played a few games in Veracruz and later moved to the
Parque Delta in Mexico City, that was also bought by Pasquel, where the team would play until its disappearance ten years later. The Azules won their first championship in 1940 by finishing the season first with a record of 61 wins and 30 losses. The team repeated as Mexican champions in 1941 with
Lázaro Salazar as manager in what was considered one of the best teams in Mexican baseball history. In 1942, the team finished last. In 1944, the Azules won their third championship under manager
Ramón Bragaña. == Year-by-year record ==