Eight Cuban baseball figures exalted to Hall of Fame • Trabajadores

Eight Cuban personalities linked to baseball (one commentator, one historian, and six players) were added to the Hall of Fame of Baseball in Palmar de Junco, Matanzas, following their designation by an electing committee.

The commentator and narrator Juan Antonio ‘Bobby’ Salamanca, creator of a peculiar style of describing a baseball game, and researcher and historian Ismael Sené, who recently passed away.

A special moment in the ceremony occurred when former pitcher Gaspar ‘El Curro’ Perez spread part of Sené’s ashes between the box and the home plate in the local stadium.

Six baseball players from different eras are also in the list, such as catcher Juan Manrique, pitchers Jose Antonio Huelga, Santiago ‘Changa’ Mederos and Pedro Ramos; shortstop Leonardo Cardenas, and fielder Jose Rosario Domecq.

Members of the electing committee informed that Jose Dolores Amieva, who was a colonel in the Liberation Army in the 19th century, and is credited with starting baseball in Matanzas, was added to the hall directly.

The Hall of Fame is where around 70 players, historians and journalists linked to Cuban baseball have been glorified since the start of the project in February, 2016. (Taken from Prensa Latina)

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