Jump to content

Baseball at the 1959 Central American and Caribbean Games

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by GreenC bot (talk | contribs) at 05:30, 10 May 2019 (Add {{Unreferenced}} (via noref bot)). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

The 1959 Central American and Caribbean Games were held in Caracas, Venezuela from January 6 through January 18, 1959. Cuba could not come as the Cuban revolution was going on.

 Puerto Rico won their first Central American and Caribbean Games Gold in baseball; it would be 43 years until the second. They went 7-1 and then beat Venezuela in the finale. J.E. Marrero and R. Paulino each went 2-0 while P. Perez had a 0.00 ERA.

 Venezuela also went 7-1 in the round-robin before falling to Puerto Rico in the finals. Pablo Higuery and J. Perez each had a 2-0 mark. M. Mendible led the Games with 13 runs.

 Panama claimed Bronze with a 4-4 record. L. Sanjur hit .500 to lead all hitters, while F. Sanchez had the most RBI (11). F. Castilleros went 2-0.

 Mexico placed fourth at 2-6.

 Netherlands Antilles was winless in their 8 games to bring up the rear.

Final standing

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Baseball_at_the_1959_Central_American_and_Caribbean_Games&oldid=896392917"