Negro Leaguers in Puerto Rico

Negro Leaguers who saw action in the Puerto Rico Professional Baseball League

  1. Hank Aaron
  2. Guillermo Angulo
  3. Joseph Atkins
  4. Eugene “Gene” Baker
  5. Dan Bankhead
  6. Fred Bankhead
  7. Sam Bankhead
  8. Lamb “Bud” Barbee
  9. Marvin Barker
  10. Frank Barnes
  11. David “Impo” Barnhill
  12. Jim Bennet
  13. Eugene Benson
  14. Walter Bond
  15. Tomás Bonilla
  16. Sam Bowens
  17. Bob Boyd
  18. Chester Brewer
  19. George Britt
  20. John Britton
  21. Ameal Brooks
  22. Barney Brown
  23. George Brown
  24. Isaac “Ike” Brown
  25. Raymond Brown
  26. Willard Brown
  27. Bill Bruton
  28. José Antonio Burgos
  29. Harry Butts
  30. Tommy Butts
  31. Billy Byrd
  32. Ralph Burgin
  33. Luis Rafael “El Tigre” Cabrera
  34. Roy Campanella
  35. Clemente “Sungo” Carrera
  36. Robert Clarke
  37. Buster Clarkson
  38. Francisco “Pancho” Coimbre
  39. Eugene “Gene” Collins
  40. Anthony Cooper
  41. Rafael “Fellito” Concepción
  42. Ramón “Monchile” Concepción
  43. Wes Covington
  44. George Crowe
  45. Jimmy Crutchfield
  46. Lloyd Davenport
  47. Robert Lomax Davis
  48. Ray Dandridge
  49. Johnny Davis
  50. Lorenzo “Piper” Davis
  51. Leon Day
  52. Félix “Fellé” Delgado
  53. Larry Doby
  54. Fernando Diaz Pedroso
  55. Reinaldo “Verdes” Drake
  56. Tommy Dukes
  57. Frank Duncan
  58. Joe Durham
  59. Luscious Easter
  60. Howard Easterling
  61. Rafael Echevarría
  62. Rocky Ellis
  63. Rodolfo Fernández
  64. Efigenio “Coco” Ferrer
  65. Wilmer Fields
  66. José Antonio Figueroa
  67. Enrique “Tite” Figueroa
  68. Joe Fillmore
  69. Percy Forrest
  70. Dominic Gálata
  71. Raúl Gálata
  72. Manuel “Cocaina” García
  73. Silvio García
  74. Alfonso Gerard
  75. Joshua Gibson
  76. Jim “Junior” Gilliam
  77. Stan Glenn
  78. William “Bill” Greason
  79. James “Joe” Greene
  80. Robert Lee Griffith
  81. Félix “Felo” Guilbe
  82. Juan Guilbe
  83. Ramón Guilfucci
  84. Sam Hairston
  85. Charles Harmon
  86. Bill Harrell
  87. Bill Harvey
  88. Bob Harvey
  89. Elston Howard
  90. Berthum Hunter
  91. Monte Irvin
  92. Livingston James
  93. Sam Jethroe
  94. Gentry Jessup
  95. Clifford Johnson Jr.
  96. Connie Johnson
  97. John J. Johnson
  98. Sam Jones
  99. Cecil Kaiser
  100. James LaMarque
  101. Enrique Lantigua
  102. Obie Layton
  103. Buck Leonard
  104. Vidal López
  105. Lester Lockett
  106. Wyman Red Longley
  107. Louis Louden
  108. Johnny Lyles
  109. Max Manning
  110. John Markham
  111. Luis “Canena” Márquez
  112. Horacio Martínez
  113. Verdell Mathis
  114. Willie Mays
  115. Booker T. McDaniels
  116. Terris McDuffie
  117. Henry McHenry
  118. Lázaro Medina
  119. Leonardo Medina Chapman
  120. Henry Miller
  121. Barney Morris
  122. Euthum Napier
  123. Emilio “Millito” Navarro
  124. Alexander Newkirk
  125. Alejandro Oms
  126. Rafael Ortiz
  127. Julio “Arango” Ortiz
  128. Leroy “Satchel” Paige
  129. Clarence Palm
  130. Bill Parker
  131. Tom Parker
  132. Roy Partlow
  133. Leonard Pearson
  134. José “Pepín” Pereira
  135. Luis F. Pérez
  136. Javier Pérez
  137. Bill Perkins
  138. Alonzo Perry
  139. Len Pigg
  140. Luis Guillermo Pillot
  141. Rafael Polanco
  142. David Pope
  143. Willie Pope
  144. William “Bill” Powell
  145. Andrés Pulliza
  146. Tomás “Planchardón” Quiñones
  147. Larry Raines
  148. Eugene Richardson
  149. Vidal Richardson
  150. Lionel Richards
  151. Aniceto “Nenene” Rivera
  152. Carlos “Charlie” Rivero
  153. Curtis Roberts
  154. Neil Robinson
  155. Bienvenido Rodríguez
  156. Robert “Bob” Romby
  157. Leon Ruffin
  158. Wilfredo Salas
  159. Juan Santaella
  160. Carlos M. Santiago
  161. José G. “Pantalones” Santiago
  162. George Scales
  163. Pat Scantlebury
  164. Dick Seay
  165. William “Barney” Serrell
  166. Harry Simpson
  167. Al Smith
  168. Eugene Smith
  169. Hilton Smith
  170. John Ford Smith
  171. Theolic Smith
  172. Francisco Sostre
  173. Herbert Souell
  174. Lonnie Summers
  175. Jimmy Stark
  176. Ed Stone
  177. Earl “Mickey” Taborn
  178. Joe Taylor
  179. Henry “Hank” Thompson
  180. Willie Thompson
  181. Bob Thurman
  182. José “Gacho” Torres
  183. Bob Trice
  184. Quincy Trouppe
  185. Juan E. “Tetelo” Vargas
  186. Roberto Vargas
  187. Jose Luis “Laru” Velázquez
  188. Vicente Villafañe
  189. Luis Villodas
  190. George Wannamaker
  191. Roy Wellmaker
  192. Willie Wells
  193. Bill White
  194. Artie Wilson
  195. Dan Wilson
  196. Jud Wilson
  197. Robert Wilson
  198. Chester Williams
  199. Harry Williams
  200. Jesse Williams
  201. Johnny Williams
  202. Marvin Williams
  203. Willie “Curley” Williams
  204. Parnell Woods
  205. Bill Wright
  206. Johnny Wright
  207. John Wyatt
  208. Ted J. Young

172 Afro Americans/Latinos

36 Puerto Ricans Negro Leagues (some of them on-going research)

208

Puerto Ricans who played in the Negro Leagues but not in the Puerto Rico Professional Baseball League (4)

1.Néstor Sabater (on-going research)
2.Francisco Ciquí Faberllé (on-going research)
3.Juan “Camarón” Sosa (on-going research)
4.Roberto Concepción Covas

Puerto Ricans who saw action in the pre-1920 Negro Leagues but did not play in the Puerto Rico Professional Baseball League (2)

1.Jesús “El Tigre” Velázquez
2.Rafael “Tunito” Cruz Clavell

Puerto Rican who played in the Independent Negro Leagues and the Puerto Rico Professional Baseball League (1)

1.José “Pepe” Santana

Managers (5)

1.Vic Harris
2.Isidro Fabre
3.Dick Lundy
4.Henry Newton Allen
5.Ramiro Ramírez

Umpires (1)

1.Oscar Charleston

Grand Total 220

Others Players/managers 9 (included as players)

1.George Scales
2.Dick Seay
3.Jimmy Starks
4.Robert Clarke
5.Ed Stone
6.Bill Wright
7.Harry Williams
8.Joshua Gibson
9.Buster Clarkson

Hall of Famers

1.Roy Campanella (Caguas, Santurce y San Juan)-1969
2.Leroy “Satchel” Paige (Guayama y Santurce)-1971
3.Joshua Gibson (Santurce)-1972
4.Walter “Buck” Leonard (Mayagüez)-1972
5.Montford “Monte” Irvin (San Juan)-1973
6.Oscar Charleston-1976[1]
7.Willie Mays (Santurce)-1979
8.Hank Aaron (Caguas)-1982
9.Ray Dandridge (Santurce)-1987
10.Leon Day (Aguadilla y Santurce)-1995
11.Willie Wells (Aguadilla)-1997
12.Larry Doby (San Juan)-1998
13.Hilton Smith (Ponce)-2001
14.Willard Brown (Humacao/Arecibo/Santurce)-2006
15.Raymond Brown (San Juan-Santurce-Ponce)-2006
16.Jud Wilson (Humacao)-2006

Umpire

Oscar Charleston

There are 35 Negro Leaguers in the Baseball Hall of Fame and of those, 16 saw action in Puerto Rico for a 45.7%.

HOF by teams

7 Santurce

3 San Juan

2 Ponce

2 Caguas

2 Humacao

1 Arecibo

1 Mayaguez

1 Umpire

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