Gacho Torres

Imagine a sudden official statement that George Washington was not, in fact, elected the first President of the United States.

For followers of Puerto Rican baseball, such was the magnitude of the announcement that José “El Gacho” Torres, not Hiram Bithorn, was the first man born on the island to play in baseball’s “major leagues.” The drastic revelation was sparked by Major League Baseball’s belated December 16, 2020, recognition of the Negro Leagues as official major leagues. Though not every circuit garnered that distinction, the Eastern Colored League (ECL) received it, and baseball sleuths unearthed Torres’s 1926 appearances.

Torres, born in the 19th century when the island was still a Spanish possession, was more than 40 years old when the Puerto Rican Winter League (PRWL) had its first campaign, starting in 1938.1 The better-known Bithorn was in his prime during the circuit’s maiden years, played for the Chicago Cubs (one the senior circuit’s most historic franchises), and had Puerto Rico’s most famous stadium posthumously named after him.

In addition to his time in the ECL, the baseball career of Gacho Torres encompassed over two decades. Besides his native Puerto Rico and the United States, he played in Venezuela and the Dominican Republic. Though the bulk of his career was during the “béisbol romántico” or amateur era, he played in the initial years of the PRWL, despite being well into his 40s. He was a nimble first baseman, an effective left-handed pitcher, and an occasional outfielder when the situation called for his defensive versatility.

José Torres Torres2 was born in Río Piedras, a suburb of San Juan, Puerto Rico, on July 2, 1896 (though some sources claim 1886).3456 Upon the death of his parents, José Torres and María Torres,7 the youngster was taken in by the “Boys’ Charity School” team, for whom he played baseball and ran track.8 After completing sixth grade, he attended Hawthorne High School but dropped out to support his six siblings.

Torres was among the thousands of Puerto Ricans who served in the US Army during the First World War. 9  It is believed that he enrolled as a volunteer in 1916, though military records of the time are incomplete.10

While stationed in Panama, Torres played with the Army’s baseball team in 1917. The following year, he hit the first home run of the tournament but was given only 10 cigarette cartons instead of the promised 50. “They claimed it was because I was not a smoker, but maybe it was because I hit the home run in my first at-bat.”11 Torres was in fact neither a smoker nor a drinker, lending some credence to the story.

While in the Armed Forces, he gained the sobriquet “Gacho” that would soon replace his given name, for the damage to his left ear in a fight against a fellow soldier.12 According to Torres, “I grabbed my ear and pulled a dangling piece of flesh hanging by a thread. Within five minutes, they were calling me ‘el Gacho.’”13 For the rest of his life, the mononym would suffice.

After World War I, baseball gained in popularity in Puerto Rico, and island-wide contests complemented regional competitions during the weekends. Players would often join a team for a single game if their main club had the day off and  brought the game to all corners, nooks, and crannies of Puerto Rico prior to the PRWL’s advent.

In the early 1920s, Torres played for more than a dozen clubs across the island. By then, he was widely regarded as one of the “four horsemen of Puerto Rican baseball” (“los cuatro jinetes del béisbol en Puerto Rico”), along with Cosme Beitía Sálamo, and brothers Fabio and Ciqui Feberllé.14 In an epoch where small ball was preferred, he was a trustworthy clutch hitter who thrived on contact, a speed demon on the base paths, and a savvy defender known to monitor the entire diamond from first base.            

Their Puerto Rico Sports club hosted a mainland team called the Boston Stars for a January 2, 1923, doubleheader. Torres went the distance and earned a 2-1 victory in the morning game. On the back end of the twin bill, he relieved Fabio Faberllé in the seventh inning and held the Stars scoreless. The Sports scored five runs in the top of the ninth before the game was called at the behest of the visitors.15 Torres picked up another victory on January 7 by the same margin, despite two errant throws to the bases and a wild pitch.16

Torres soon jumped the Sports after being fined for ignoring a bunt sign and instead hitting a home run,17 though contemporary accounts did not cite the reason.18 He joined the Ribosch, a collection of the island’s best players, sponsored by pair of tobacco magnate brothers from Cayey.19 By the end of the year, reporters called Torres “not the most pleasant or polite of the players in our leagues, but he is the most popular and best-known in Puerto Rico.”20 He won a popular contest run by newspaper El Mundo as the “most necessary” player, though Víctor Caratini and Francisco “Paquito” Montaner were more popular.  

Meanwhile, German-born former minor-leaguer Ernest “Duke” Landgraf collated local Keystone State talent and fielded a semiprofessional team in Allentown, Pennsylvania. A December 1 article from El Mundo claimed, “Renowned manager Langraff (sic) will come to the country to scout Puerto Rican players to bring them to the Major Leagues,” tacitly acknowledging the NL and AL, rather than the Negro Leagues or the minor leagues.21

While the Allentown tour was successful, it was not without eyebrow-raising moments – the team released Bill Duryea after a stadium altercation and an argument with Landgraf.22 The Dukes had left an indelible impression among the island’s fans, and local press regularly featured Allentown’s game recaps within the sports pages, whetting the appetite for a return trip.

During the Dukes’ second tour in 1925, Torres played for various Puerto Rican teams, including Ponce, Mayagüez, and San Juan. Landgraf, however, was not in the Antilles solely to pick up wins; he sought high-caliber players to reinforce his squad. Stateside press was impressed by Torres, who “during the last Porto Rican tour of the Dukes…broke up several games at San Juan with home runs.”232425

While in Puerto Rico, Landgraf announced the Dukes would join the Anthracite Baseball Association in 1925.2627  Although Landgraf’s recruitment of Agustín “Tingo” Daviú and Torres represents the first documented instances of Puerto Rican-born players competing in the United States, it is possible that others may have predated them. Torres may have played in the northeastern United States with the Porto Rican Stars, a team that barnstormed in the 1920s.28 According to Joaquín Colón López, author of Pioneros puertorriqueños en Nueva York, 1917-1947 (“Puerto Rican Pioneers in New York, 1917-1947”), “before Bithorn and [Luis Rodríguez] Olmo we saw teams with good players with Yumet the Deaf, Guiluche (sic), ‘El Gacho’ Torres, Augusto Cohen, Laron, Beitia, and Francisco ‘Pancho’ Coímbre play against Black Americans in Dexter Park, Dickman Oval (sic), and later in Yankee Stadium when the Yankees were out of town.”29

In the summer of 1925, it was made official: “a new right fielder, Joe Gacho, a Porto Rican, who learned the game while in Uncle Sam’s army down in Panama, and who later played with the Ribosch and Caya (sic) teams in Porto Rico.”30 Torres was hitless in two at-bats on July 10 as the Dukes hosted the Hazleton Mountaineers, but Allentown won the seven-inning, rain-shortened game, 5-3.31

Torres was a fixture in the Dukes lineup during the summer as the team roared to a 45-13 (.776) record.32 With much of the expected bravado, Torres noted that he clubbed a trio of doubles despite being hectored by a female fan, to which he allegedly replied, “how dare she mess with this dark-skinned dandy?”33

On August 16, Torres was described as “a true colossus in the outfield…who has established surprising records with the bat…as a runner, he is marvelous…all he was lacking was (the opportunity to defend the centerpiece of the diamond).” He allowed three runs in the first third of the game but none in the rest en route to a 6-3 victory.34

Almost 10 days later, an August 27 El Mundo article noted the southpaw’s departure from the Allentown team.35 The story had first broken in the Allentown Morning Call  a week earlier: “Gacho, who after a bad start played a bang-up game with the Allentown Dukes both in the field and at the bat and on his turn in pitching, left Allentown Sunday and sailed yesterday…Gacho has been ill for the past week, and when he arrives home will undergo an operation at once. Owner Landgraf said that he expected to have Gacho rejoin the Dukes in the tropics this winter, and that he would have him back with his Dukes against next season.”36

Torres returned to the Dukes in 1926, but the club was now part of the Interstate League, an innovative integrated circuit of white teams (Allentown, Reading, and Camden) and Black squads (Harrisburg, Bacharach, Hilldale). The club’s roster included a dozen players, including Rafael Net and Torres, who had previously been described as “a left hander (outfielder) who will also be able to take the pitching mound when called upon.”3738

Although mostly a position player, Torres pitched occasionally. A brief article from the Baltimore African-American noted, “Altho (sic) Gacho was touched for ten hits, he kept them scattered and fast fielding saved him at critical times.”39 Both Torres and Daviú homered in the April 23 exhibition contest, a 11-6 Allentown win over the Lincoln Giants.40

He had a pair of hits in a 14-6 loss to the Harrisburg Giants on May 1 in the Interstate League’s opening day game.41 The game was called “as pretty as a baseball struggle as this city (or) any other city would want to witness. A team made up of players, who only for their color would be in the major leagues to-day, playing against a white club, the Dukes, recognized as one of the leading ball clubs outside the major and Class AA leagues. What more could the heart of a real fan desire.”42 The racial divide shows the peculiar perspective from the eye of the beholder, as Torres was categorized as “white” (or perhaps, “white enough”) for his team.

The Dukes disbanded by early May, though Mrs. Landgraf kept some players for independent competition.43 44 Soon after, Torres found himself on the other side of the racial divide. Before the season started, he had vouched for “great opportunities for…white Puerto Rican players with the American teams.”45 He would soon suit up for a “colored team.”

The Wilmington (née Washington) Potomacs dropped out of the ECL in 1925, leaving the circuit with only seven teams. A new franchise was created, the Newark Stars, which began its 1926 season on May 9 with a doubleheader against Harrisburg.46 Torres was hitless in three turns on May 23, as both the first baseman and the left fielder, in a 5-3 loss against the New York Lincoln Giants.47 He played center field in the second game, won by Lincoln 8-5, but enjoyed only a single at-bat.4849

The team won its first game almost six weeks later, 9-2 over the Lincoln Giants in the second game of a doubleheader, though Torres did not appear in the contest.50 Little did the team know it would be its sole victory. Officially, Gacho is credited with no hits and one walk in five plate appearances, though research may still unearth additional information.51

The 1-10 Stars disbanded in early July as “both William Davis, who was credited as being the promoter of the project, and Wilbur Crelin, who was out in front as business manager, refuse further support.”52

On June 13, 1926, El Mundo announced that Torres and the Bridgeport Black Sox had agreed to a $225 monthly salary for the remainder of the season. He had requested his release from both Allentown and Newark owing to his ailing pitching arm. Nevertheless, his services were in demand as “other teams frequently inquire about his availability both for the current and next seasons.”53

By early July, the Black Sox featured six Puerto Ricans on its roster: Torres, Guilfuchi, Camarón, Net, Ramón “Monchile” Concepción, and Pepín Barreiro. El Mundo opined that “the team ought to be regarded as representative of Puerto Rican baseball, and their efforts will judge whether a well-organized, purely Puerto Rican team could tour the United States next season.”54

Curiously, the Black Sox played the Allentown Dukes on August 7.55 Although Torres did not play in the doubleheader,56 the North Adams Evening Transcript published the team-supplied studio (posed) photograph.57

Torres returned to Puerto Rico and played for at least a dozen clubs in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Stateside, Torres is known to have played for the Boston Black Sox58 (1929 and 1931) and a club in Iberville, Canada.59

Torres played for the PRWL’s Humacao Grises from 1938 to 1940 and the league champion Caguas Criollos in 1940-1941, alongside 19-year-old Roy Campanella. He completed his career with the Mayagüez Indios (1941-1943).

A 1942 newspaper profile claimed that Torres was 56 (unsurprisingly, he did not correct the author) and marveled at his ability to play against players half his age. Said Torres, “I don’t smoke, I don’t drink alcohol, I don’t dance, I don’t gamble. (Baseball) is my only pastime; I live for it, I feel it, I dream about it, and I consider it part of my life.”60

Always a fierce competitor, Torres is believed to be the first player to be ejected from a PRWL game on November 13, 1938.61  Early PRWL statistics are incomplete and Torres’s advanced age (42 in his first season, 47 in his last, while playing right field) must be considered in any evaluation.62 He is credited with 263 at-bats, 64 hits, 30 runs, and a .243 average.63 On the field and off, he was not above occasionally quipping, “We old-timers can still play.”64

On September 7, 1943, while supervising efforts to build a road, a barrel of tar was dropped on his head.65 Were it not for this unfortunate work-related injury, Torres would have likely continued to play, seemingly forever.

Despite his short PRWL career, he was selected by Puerto Rico baseball historian Luis Alvelo as one of two second basemen for his All-Time All-Star team, mostly composed of players from the circuit’s “Golden Age” (the 1940s).66 Although Torres was glad to see the creation of the PRWL, he noted the baseball romántico was “vastly superior…self-esteem was a prominent factor. Today’s baseball is purely commercial. Players back then were more intelligent and aggressive…the bunt, the drag ball, and the squeeze play were used much more often, with good success. That made our baseball much more exciting.”67

Torres died on December 16, 1963, in Cayey, a victim of an attempted residential robbery gone awry. His home abutted his market, so it was likely the killers sought to loot the cash. Although no weapon was found on the scene, his body presented a gunshot wound through his right ear.68 He lived alone at the time of his death, as his wife Jacinta had died a year earlier.697071 His obituary mentioned his (step)son Koke and his siblings Fausta and Rafael.7273

Torres was inducted into the Puerto Rican Sports Hall of Fame in 195774 and the Cayey Sports Hall of Fame in 2004.75 However, he is not part of the Puerto Rican Professional Baseball Hall of Fame (“Salón de la Fama del Béisbol Profesional de Puerto Rico”), which features players who primarily played in the PRWL.76

Acknowledgments

• Gary Ashwill, curator of Agate Type, an outstanding repository of Negro League and Latin American Baseball History information.
• Jorge Colón Delgado, historian of the PRWL, for statistics of Torres’s years with the PRWL.
• Noemi Figueroa Soulet, Executive Producer of El Pozo Productions and The Borinqueneers Film, for providing information on the 65th
• Luis Meléndez Rivera, Cayey historian, for information about Torres’s life and induction in the Cayey Sports Hall of Fame.
• Mario Torres Ramos, librarian for the University of Puerto Rico, for providing the author with the digitized records of El Mundo de Puerto Rico.
• The Seamheads Team, for its indefatigable efforts to preserve the history of the Negro Leagues.
• The staff at the Boston Public Library, for providing the author with some well-preserved images of The North Adams Evening Transcript.
• Víctor Rafael Vega Green, Cayey historian and founding member of the Cayey Sports Hall of Fame, for providing the author with various clippings of Torres.
• This story was reviewed by Donna Halper and Rory Costello and fact-checked by Paul Proia.

Sources

In addition to the sources shown in the Acknowledgments and Notes, the author used Baseball-Reference.com, Retrosheet.org, and Seamheads.com.

Notes

1 Although the league was renamed the “Liga de Baseball Profesional Roberto Clemente” in May 2012, this article focuses on its 20th century operations, when it was known as the “Liga de Béisbol Profesional de Puerto Rico” and in English as the “Puerto Rican Winter League.”

2 Both his father and his mother had the same last name, hence the duplication under the Spanish convention of two surnames.

3 Luis Meléndez recognizes Cataño, a coastal town to the west of San Juan, as Torres’s birthplace. Cayey, however, remains the municipality most associated with Torres. Río Piedras was its own city until 1951, when its residents and those of San Juan voted to annex the suburb into the capital.

4 Other sources list 1886. Guido Ortiz, “El Gacho Torres Prepara en Cayey a su Sucesor en el Béisbol,” El Mundo de Puerto Rico, September 10, 1950: 14.

5 The 1936 Puerto Rican census, as found in Ancestry.com, states that Torres was 50 at the time. However, the sheet was recorded on January 28, 1936, which would have made Torres 49 rather than 50 years old.

6 A Passenger manifest list from the S.S. Carabobo, which sailed from La Guaira, Venezuela on January 31, 1928, and arrived in San Juan on February 2, 1928, lists Torres as being born on July 2, 1896, in Río Piedras (Ancestry.com).

7 Eugenio Guerra, “Perseverancia en los deportes,” El Mundo de Puerto Rico, February 15, 1942: 10. María’s Maiden name was also Torres, hence José Torres Torres as the full name (with paternal and maternal last names). The parents’ names are corroborated with US Social Security Applications and Claim Index, found on Ancestry.com.

8 Ortiz, “El Gacho Torres Prepara en Cayey a su Sucesor en el Béisbol.”

9 Noemi Figueroa Soulet, executive producer of “The Borinqueneers,” found records of seven men named “José Torres, members of the Portorican Regiment of Infantry,” (sic) arriving in Cristóbal, Panama Canal Zone, on the U.S.A.T Kilpatrick on February 8, 1919. The ship had sailed from San Juan. However, the list does not include the Army Service Number, so it cannot be ascertained that “Gacho” was one of the seven. Sadly, “José Torres” is too common a name.

10 Ortiz, “El Gacho Torres Prepara en Cayey a su Sucesor en el Béisbol.”

11 Ortiz, “El Gacho Torres Prepara en Cayey a su Sucesor en el Béisbol.”

12 The Royal Academy of Spanish (“Real Academia Española”) defines the term as an “Americanism, specific to rural Puerto Rico, to denote someone whose ear(s) is(are) mutilated.”

13 Ortiz, “El Gacho Torres Prepara en Cayey a su Sucesor en el Béisbol.”

14 Solsiree del Moral, “Colonial Citizens of a Modern Empire: War, Illiteracy, and Physical Education in Puerto Rico, 1917-1930,” New West Indian Guide 87, 2013:30-61.

15 Manuel el Leñero, “Crónicas de Base-Ball,” El Imparcial, January 3, 1923: 4.

16 “Deportivas,” El Mundo de Puerto Rico, January 10, 1923: 5.

17 Ortiz, “El Gacho Torres Prepara en Cayey a su Sucesor en el Béisbol.”

18 “Es lo único que les queda,” El Mundo de Puerto Rico, August 8, 1923: 11.

19 Juan José Baldrich, “Smoker Beyond the Sea: The Story of Puerto Rican Tobacco,” University Press of Mississippi, October 21, 2022.

20 “Deportivas de ‘el Mundo,’” El Mundo de Puerto Rico, December 29, 1923: 11.

21 “El club de ‘Allentown’ de la Atlantic League visitará pronto a Puerto Rico, para luchar con las novenas de aquí,” El Mundo de Puerto Rico, December 1, 1923; 7.

22 “Bill Duryea Quits Dukes in Porto Rico,” The Plain Speaker (Hazleton, Pennsylvania), February 19, 1924: 10.

23 “Landgraft is After Another Puerto Rican,” The Mount Carmel Item, July 01, 1925: 4.

24 “Dukes Take Three Games from Mayagüez,” The Allentown Morning Call, March 18, 1925: 18.

25 “Dukes Drop Another Game in Porto Rico,” The Allentown Morning Call, February 24, 1925:17.

26 “Allentown in League,” The Harrisburg Telegraph, March 24, 1925: 15.

27 Company-sponsored teams in Pennsylvania’s coal-producing regions would play in the “anthracite baseball” circuit, so-named after a grade of coal found in the area. Baseball Reference notes a short-lived, Class-D “Anthracite Baseball League” that operated in 1928, but Allentown was not a member. Instead, Allentown joined the “Anthracite Baseball Association,” a less-organized collection of clubs in the early 1920s, some of which would eventually join the “Anthracite Baseball League” in 1928. The “Anthracite Baseball Association” folded in 1925, during Allentown’s first and only season as a member.

28 This is likely a different team from the early 1920s “Puerto Rico Sports.” Given the generic nature of the name, it could have been simultaneously used by various squads to benefit from the name recognition.

29 Joaquín Colón López, Pioneros puertorriqueños en Nueva York, 1917-1947, Arte Público Press, 2001: 233.

30 “Dukes Sign a New Right Fielder,” The Mount Carmel Daily News, July 9, 1925: 8.

31 “Mountaineers Lose in Drizzling Rain,” Hazleton Standard-Sentinel, July 11, 1925: 18.

32 “Gacho ya está jugando con Landgraf,” El Mundo de Puerto Rico, July 19, 1925: 11.

33 “Crónica de Eddie Collins,” El Mundo de Puerto Rico, July 26, 1925: 11.

34 “Gacho debuta como lanzador derrotando a los ‘Wilmington Chicks,’” El Mundo de Puerto Rico, August 16, 1925: 10.

35 Eddie Collins (pseudonym), “Gacho regresa a Puerto Rico,” El Mundo de Puerto Rico, August 27, 1925: 13.

36 “Gacho Returns to Porto Rico Today,” Allentown Morning Call, August 15, 1925; 6

37 “Landgraf Gets Former National League Star,” Mount Carmel Item, March 18, 1926: 5.

38 “Landgraf Now Has 12 Players Signed,” Mount Carmel Item, March 30, 1926: 5.

39 “Lloyd and Lincolns Lose 11 To 6 To Allentown,” The African-American, May 1, 1926: 9.

40 “Nuestros peloteros en los Estado Unidos,” El Mundo de Puerto Rico, May 9, 1926: 10.

41 “Giants Winner in First Game,” The Harrisburg Sunday Courier, May 2, 1926: 3.

42 “’Dukes’ Expect First Victory,” The Harrisburg Telegraph, May 1, 1926: 13.

43 “Mrs. Landgraf Will Keep the Dukes On Field,” Shamokin News-Dispatch, June 17, 1926: 6.

44 “Dukes’ Carnival to Be Continued,” The (Mount Carmel) Daily News, August 4, 1926: 4.

45 “Nuestros peloteros en los Estado Unidos,” El Mundo de Puerto Rico, April 25, 1926: 10.

46 “Newark Stars Start May 9,” The New York Amsterdam, April 14, 1926: 6.

47 “Lincolns in 2 Victories Over Newark,” The Chicago Defender (National edition), May 29, 1926: 10.

48 Larry Lester and Dick Clark, “Day by Days for All Hitters-Career, Jose Torres (Gacho, Joe),” Negro Leagues Researchers & Authors Group (NLRAG), 2004.

49 “Newark Loses Two in First League Clash,” Philadelphia Tribune, May 29, 1926: 11.

50 “Bill Lindsay Out of Line Up, Lincolns Lose to Newark Stars,” The Baltimore Afro-American, June 26, 1926: 9.

51 Baseball Reference profile for José (Gacho) Torres, as of July 31, 2024.

52 “Newark Stars Drop Out of Eastern Loop,” New Journal and Guide, July 10, 1926: 5.

53 “Acontecimientos deportivos,” El Mundo de Puerto Rico, June 13, 1926.

54 “Acontecimientos deportivos,” El Mundo de Puerto Rico, July 4, 1926: 8.

55 “Boston Black Sox to Play Allentown Saturday,” The Plain Speaker, August 5, 1926: 12.

56 “Dukes Win Two from Black Sox; Johnson Wins Own Game with Homer,” The Allentown Morning Call, August 8, 1926: 9.

57 “To Play North Adams Monday,” The North Adams Evening Transcript, September 4, 1926: 11.

58 This could have been the Bridgeport Black Sox, under a different name.

59 Guerra, “Perseverancia en los deportes.”

60 Guerra, “Perseverancia en los deportes.”

61 Víctor Luis Rivera, “Cefo Tiró la 1ra Blanqueada,” El Mundo de Puerto Rico¸ October 15, 1955: 20.

62 Assuming 1896 as his birth year.

63 “José “Gacho” Torres Page,” Béisbol 101, accessed August 14, 2023, https://beisbol101.com/jugador/jose-gacho-torres/

64 Antonio Arias Cruz, “A dos semanas de la primera vuelta del campeonato,” El Mundo de Puerto Rico, January 16, 1941: 11.

65 Ortiz, “El Gacho Torres Prepara en Cayey a su Sucesor en el Béisbol.”

66 William F. McNeil, Baseball’s Other All-Stars: The Greatest Players from the Negro Leagues, the Japanese Leagues, the Mexican League, and the Pre-1960 Winter Leagues, Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 2000: 223.

67 Guerra, “Perseverancia en los deportes.”

68 Miguel Rivera, “Sospechan crimen: Hallan muerto de balazo a José Torres (el Gacho),” El Mundo de Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR, December 17, 1963: 33.

69 Emilio K. Huyke, “Por quinta vez se rinde honores a “inmortales del deporte” en la isla, El Mundo de Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR, March 21, 1964: 61.

70 Jacinta’s last names have also been given as García Torrondell.

71 Jacinta’s son (and Torres’s stepson) is listed as Joseph Fantauzzi, 25 years of age (therefore born 1910 or 1911, chauffeur as occupation). She is listed as being a farmer in the Montellano neighborhood (or barrio).

72 “José Torres Torres (Gacho) Obituary,” El Mundo de Puerto Rico, December 16, 1963: 48.

73 Other articles reference José Ramón (Koky) García as his grandchild.

74 Pabellón de la Fama del Deporte Puertorriqueño, https://pabellondelafamadeldeportepr.org/directorio-de-exaltados/

75 Salón de la Fama del Deporte Cayeyano, https://www.facebook.com/sdfcayeyano/

76 Salón de la Fama del Béisbol Profesional de Puerto Rico, https://safabpp.com/