Jorge Colón-Delgado
Born in Santurce, Puerto Rico, he has spent the past four decades researching and writing about baseball history.
In 2003, he was appointed Official Historian of the Puerto Rico Professional Baseball League, a role he held until 2006 and resumed in 2018 under its current name, the Liga de Béisbol Profesional Roberto Clemente. In 2008, he was inducted into the Santurce Sports Hall of Fame as a Writer and Promoter, and in 2017 into the Río Piedras Hall of Fame. That same year, the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown granted him a Lifetime Pass in recognition of his contributions to preserving baseball history.
In 2016, he was recognized as Best Online Sports Journalist for both the Metro Area and Puerto Rico. He also serves on the Selection Committee for the Caribbean Series Hall of Fame.
He is the author of seven books: Camarero en punta (1998), La Maquinaria Perfecta (2007), Historia del Clásico del Caribe (2009), Pedrín Zorrilla: El Cangrejo Mayor (2011), 75 años de Béisbol Profesional Boricua (2014), Dream Team del Béisbol Profesional Boricua (2015), and Historia de los Indios de Mayagüez (2019). Five of his baseball books are part of the library collection at the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
On April 15, 2022, he was selected to serve on the “42 for 21” committee, whose mission is to recommend Negro Leagues players, managers, umpires, executives, and pioneers for consideration by the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
In 2018, he was again designated Official Historian of the Liga de Béisbol Profesional Roberto Clemente, and in 2022 he was appointed General Coordinator of the Puerto Rican Professional Baseball Hall of Fame.
In the audiovisual field, he is a screenwriter, director, and narrator of historical documentaries. He produced and directed Metamorfosis (2019), about the history of racetracks in Puerto Rico, which premiered at Hipódromo Camarero, where he also served as narrator. His most recent work, The Beginning of Baseball in Puerto Rico (completed in 2025 and submitted to the Puerto Rico Film Festival), explores the origins of the sport on the island, beginning with the first documented game in 1898 in Santurce between Borinquen and Almendares.
Participated as a credited writer and on-screen historian in the award-winning documentary Béisbol: Legends of Puerto Rico (2023).
His media experience includes a sports column in the newspaper El Nuevo Día, as well as work in radio and television. He also served for 16 years as Press Director of the Caribbean Classic (Caribbean Horse Racing Series / Caribbean Horse Racing Confederation), coordinating media coverage of international events.
As a digital historian, he edits and maintains three platforms dedicated to historical preservation:
safabpp.com — Official site of the Puerto Rican Professional Baseball Hall of Fame (bilingual).
beisbol101.com — Included as a reference resource in the Digital Library of Latin American and Caribbean Sports, an academic initiative of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign that connects historical sports sources across Latin America and the Caribbean.
negroleaguerspuertorico.com — A specialized repository on more than 217 Negro Leagues players who participated in Puerto Rico, featuring profiles, anecdotes, and expert testimony from historians such as Gary Ashwill and Larry Lester (SABR). The site highlights the respect and sense of “comfort” these athletes found on the island during the era of segregation in the United States.
Jorge Colón Delgado combines rigorous research, prolific writing, audiovisual production, and digital curation to preserve and share Puerto Rican and Caribbean sports heritage. His work connects Puerto Rican baseball with the Negro Leagues, Major League Baseball, and the Caribbean Series, positioning him as a key voice at the intersection of history, culture, and sport.
