Hall of Fame Sportscaster. He was best known for being "the Spanish voice" for many of baseball's greatest moments during a six decade span. He started his broadcast career in his native Cuba in 1945, doing play-by-play for Cuban Winter League games until the early 1960s when the Fidel Castro's government abolished professional sports. He left Cuba and went first to Venezuela and then Puerto Rico where he continued to broadcast baseball games. In 1949 he started, along with with other broadcasters, doing Spanish-language broadcasts of various boxing fights and baseball games for the NBC radio's Gillette Cavalcade of Sports and continued for the next three decades. During his career, he called thirty-one American World Series and All-Star Games and over forty Caribbean World Series. He was honored for his career achievements in 2001 by being awarded the Ford Frick Award (the broadcasting wing of the Baseball Hall of Fame). He was also honored by being inducted into the Puerto Rican Sports Hall of Fame. In 1993 he became "the Spanish voice" of the Florida (now Miami) Marlins and continued in this position until April 26, 2017 when he fell down while trying to get off the team's bus. He never fully recovered from this and passed away from complications.
Hall of Fame Sportscaster. He was best known for being "the Spanish voice" for many of baseball's greatest moments during a six decade span. He started his broadcast career in his native Cuba in 1945, doing play-by-play for Cuban Winter League games until the early 1960s when the Fidel Castro's government abolished professional sports. He left Cuba and went first to Venezuela and then Puerto Rico where he continued to broadcast baseball games. In 1949 he started, along with with other broadcasters, doing Spanish-language broadcasts of various boxing fights and baseball games for the NBC radio's Gillette Cavalcade of Sports and continued for the next three decades. During his career, he called thirty-one American World Series and All-Star Games and over forty Caribbean World Series. He was honored for his career achievements in 2001 by being awarded the Ford Frick Award (the broadcasting wing of the Baseball Hall of Fame). He was also honored by being inducted into the Puerto Rican Sports Hall of Fame. In 1993 he became "the Spanish voice" of the Florida (now Miami) Marlins and continued in this position until April 26, 2017 when he fell down while trying to get off the team's bus. He never fully recovered from this and passed away from complications.
Bio by: Mr. Badger Hawkeye
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