Mario Fajo

Mario Fajo

• Bats Right, Throws Right
• Height 5' 8", Weight 150 lb.

• Born ~1918

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Biographical Information

Mario Fajo played for the Cuban national team and in the minors.

Fajo singled in his only at-bat for Cuba when they got the Gold in the 1938 Central American and Caribbean Games. In the 1939 Amateur World Series (which Cuba won), Peter Bjarkman lists him as hitting .400 but with 2 hits in 10 at-bats, so either the hit total or average or both are wrong. He hit .341/~.386/.463 when Cuba won the 1940 Amateur World Series, putting him 9th in the event in average, between Hernán Hernández and Luis Romero. He was one triple behind leader José Pérez Colmenares. He hit .442 for Circulo Militar in the 1940 Cuban amateur league, leading in average. He hit only .125 when Cuba won the 1942 Amateur World Series.

He turned pro in 1944 with the Atlanta Crackers of the Southern Association, hitting .243/.300/.288. His .851 fielding percentage was last among the league's shortstops. He also pitched 7 innings. He hit .only .164 and slugged .185 in his only Cuban Winter League stint, split between two teams. He split the summer between Atlanta, the Mobile Bears and the Newport News Dodgers (.312/?/.420 in 34 G). After not playing in the minors in 1946, he hit .231/?/.279 between three teams in the Florida International League in 1947.

After another summer out of the minors, he hit .186 and slugged .231 for the '49 Leavenworth Braves. In 1950, he did not play in the minors, continuing his pattern of alternating seasons in the USA. He ended his career in 1951, hitting .273/?/.399 with 30 doubles and 9 home runs for the Middlesboro Athletics. He was 9th in the Mountain States League in two-baggers.