He pitched in the first seven National Series: 77 games, 20 won and 19 lost, with a 2.66 earned run average. In 1967 he came on in relief of Manuel Alarcón at the Estadio Latinoamericano. Orientales...
He moved to Havana, where he worked on the construction of the Habana Libre hotel and played for a team from the site itself. In 1961 he was called up as a guest player to the Cuban team that...
He was born on 2 January 1933 in San Ramón, Campechuela, in what is now the province of Granma, into a poor family. He started school but had to leave it for money. At seventeen he began playing in...
