The Venezuelan Winter Ball season starts on October 20th and finalizes on January 30th this year.  There are 60 games in the regular season and the top five teams go on to play 16 more games in the semi-finals.  The top two teams from the semi-finals play each other in a final best-of-seven series.  The winner gets to advance to the Caribbean Series, in which the number one ranked teams from Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Mexico and Venezuela compete against each other. 

The Venezuelan League (or Liga Venezolana de Béisbol Profesional) is made up of two divisions - Oriental (Eastern) and Occidente (Western).  There are four teams in each division.  Ramón's team, Pastora de los Llanos (Shepard of the Plains) is part of the Occidente division. 

For more info on the Venezuelan Winter Ball, check these websites: 

Mipunto.com Deportes - probably the best place to go for stats and the latest news about Venezuelan baseball (in Spanish) 

Liga Venezolana de Béisbol Profesional  - The official site of the Venezualan winter league (in Spanish) 

English Version of LVBP- if you don't speak Spanish, you might try this version of the Liga Venezolana de Béisbol site...not a very good translation, but it will give you the gist of things

Baseball America.com  - has stats on all the Winter Ball leagues, including Arizona Fall League, Puerto Rican League, Dominican Republic League, Mexican League and Venezuelan League

MLB.com Venezuelan League Article (January 14th, 2002) - describes the atmosphere of a Venezuelan League game

It could only happen in Venezuela (January 24th, 2002) - mentions Ramón 

*Ramon finished as the League Batting Average Leader with .376