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. Sam Bowens
  16. Bob Boyd
  17. Chester Brewer
  18. George Britt
  19. John Britton
  20. Ameal Brooks
  21. Barney Brown
  22. George Brown
  23. Isaac “Ike” Brown
  24. Raymond Brown
  25. Willard Brown
  26. Bill Bruton
  27. José Antonio Burgos
  28. Harry Butts
  29. Tommy Butts
  30. Billy Byrd
  31. Ralph Burgin
  32. Luis Rafael “El Tigre” Cabrera
  33. Roy Campanella
  34. Clemente “Sungo” Carrera
  35. Robert Clarke
  36. Buster Clarkson
  37. Donn Clendenon
  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. Luis 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. William “Bill” Greason
  78. James “Joe” Greene
  79. Robert Lee Griffith
  80. Félix “Felo” Guilbe
  81. Juan Guilbe
  82. Ramón Guilfucci
  83. Sam Hairston
  84. Charles Harmon
  85. Bill Harrell
  86. Bill Harvey
  87. Bob Harvey
  88. Elston Howard
  89. Monte Irvin
  90. Livingston James
  91. Sam Jethroe
  92. Gentry Jessup
  93. Clifford Johnson Jr.
  94. Connie Johnson
  95. John J. Johnson
  96. Sam Jones
  97. Cecil Kaiser
  98. James LaMarque
  99. Enrique Lantigua
  100. Obie Layton
  101. Buck Leonard
  102. Vidal López
  103. Lester Lockett
  104. Wyman Red Longley
  105. Louis Louden
  106. Johnny Lyles
  107. Max Manning
  108. John Markham
  109. Luis “Canena” Márquez
  110. Horacio Martínez
  111. Willie Mays
  112. Booker T. McDaniels
  113. Terris McDuffie
  114. Henry McHenry
  115. Lázaro Medina
  116. Leonardo Medina Chapman
  117. Henry Miller
  118. Barney Morris
  119. Euthum Napier
  120. Emilio “Millito” Navarro
  121. Alexander Newkirk
  122. Alejandro Oms
  123. Rafael Ortiz
  124. Julio “Arango” Ortiz
  125. Leroy “Satchel” Paige
  126. Clarence Palm
  127. Bill Parker
  128. Tom Parker
  129. Roy Partlow
  130. Leonard Pearson
  131. José “Pepín” Pereira
  132. Luis F. Pérez
  133. Javier Pérez
  134. Bill Perkins
  135. Alonzo Perry
  136. Luis Guillermo Pillot
  137. Rafael Polanco
  138. David Pope
  139. Willie Pope
  140. William “Bill” Powell
  141. Andrés Pulliza
  142. Tomás “Planchardón” Quiñones
  143. Larry Raines
  144. Eugene Richardson
  145. Vidal Richardson
  146. Lionel Richards
  147. Aniceto “Nenene” Rivera
  148. Carlos “Charlie” Rivero
  149. Curtis Roberts
  150. Neil Robinson
  151. Bienvenido Rodríguez
  152. Robert “Bob” Romby
  153. Leon Ruffin
  154. Wilfredo Salas
  155. Carlos M. Santiago
  156. José G. “Pantalones” Santiago
  157. George Scales
  158. Pat Scantlebury
  159. Dick Seay
  160. William “Barney” Serrell
  161. Harry Simpson
  162. Al Smith
  163. Eugene Smith
  164. Hilton Smith
  165. John Ford Smith
  166. Francisco Sostre
  167. Herbert Souell
  168. Lonnie Summers
  169. Jimmy Starks
  170. Ed Stone
  171. Earl “Mickey” Taborn
  172. Joe Taylor
  173. Henry “Hank” Thompson
  174. Willie Thompson
  175. Bob Thurman
  176. José “Gacho” Torres
  177. Quincy Trouppe
  178. Juan E. “Tetelo” Vargas
  179. Roberto Vargas
  180. Vicente Villafañe
  181. Luis Villodas
  182. George Wannamaker
  183. Roy Wellmaker
  184. Willie Wells
  185. Bill White
  186. Artie Wilson
  187. Dan Wilson
  188. Jud Wilson
  189. Robert Wilson
  190. Chester Williams
  191. Harry Williams
  192. Jesse Williams
  193. Johnny Williams
  194. Marvin Williams
  195. Willie “Curley” Williams
  196. Parnell Woods
  197. Bill Wright
  198. Johnny Wright
  199. John Wyatt
  200. Ted J. Young
  201. Jose Luis “Laru” Velázquez
  202. Len Pigg
  203. Tomas Bonilla
  204. Stan Glenn
  205. Juan Santaella

167 Afro Americans

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

205

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 218 (includes one umpire)

Others Players/managers 9 (included in players and managers total)

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, 17 saw action in Puerto Rico for a 48.6%.

HOF by teams

7 Santurce

3 San Juan

2 Ponce

2 Caguas

2 Humacao

1 Arecibo

1 Mayaguez

1 Umpire

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