on august 19, 1959, the capitanes won their first basketball championship against the rio piedras cardinals at the rodríguez olmo stadium in arecibo. they were coached by lou rossinni, and the heroes of that series were jaime frontera, francisco pancho padilla, felipito colón, bill maccadney, josé (fufi) santori coll, moisés navedo, josé rodríguez gómez, eddie martínez, josé vázquez, josé aponte, angel morales, jaime miranda, joe phillip padilla hijo, ramón siraguza, enrique miranda, and sitín garcía. this team is the only team in bsn history to have gone the entire season, including the playoffs, undefeated.