page_title: Diablos Rojos del México
section_title: 1940s
hierarchical_section_title: Diablos Rojos del México / History / 1940s
caption_attribution_description: English: A jersey worn by the Diablos Rojos del México baseball team circa 1945, part of a display at the Baseball Hall of Fame.
context_page_description: The Diablos Rojos del Mexico are a Triple-A Minor League Baseball team of the Mexican League based in Mexico City, Mexico. The team was founded in 1940 by Salvador Lutteroth and Ernesto Carmona. They have won sixteen league championships, including back-to-back championships three times, and several more division championships. The team has an affiliate, the Diablos de Hermosillo of the Liga Norte de Mexico. 20,233-capacity Estadio Alfredo Harp Helú is their home.
context_section_description: The Reds of Mexico, as they were known at first, were founded in 1940 by Salvador Lutteroth and the famous manager Ernesto Carmona. The Reds greatest rival was the best team in the league that season, the Blues of Veracruz. During the first two seasons, they remained one of the top teams, in second place, but after this and up until 1945, they fell far behind in the standings. In 1946 and 1947, they repeated as runners-up again. The last two campaigns of the decade passed unnoticed.
  During the 1942 season, on April 23, the Reds were losing 13–7 in the ninth and final inning, until the Capital players began to fight back, scoring another 7 runs and beating their rivals, it was this moment Basilio 'Brujo' Rosell exclaimed that "these Reds play like devils," giving the team their nickname.
caption: Team jersey from c. 1945 at the Baseball Hall of Fame
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