Derubin Jácome
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Derubin Jácome was an amateur star in Cuba. He hit .423 to lead the Cuban national team to a Gold Medal in the 1950 Central American and Caribbean Games; he was .053 ahead of the team's next-best, Sandy Amorós and Enrique Ballester. [1] He batted .484 for Deportivo Matanzas to lead the Cuban amateur league in 1951. [2] He was on the Cuban squad that won Gold in the 1951 Pan American Games, the first Pan American Games. [3]
Sources[edit]
- ↑ A History of Cuban Baseball by Peter Bjarkman, pg. 227
- ↑ ibid., pg. 192
- ↑ Pan American Games historian Bill Mallon
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