Vicente Amor

Vicente Amor Álvarez

• Bats Right, Throws Right
• Height 6' 3", Weight 182 lb.

• Debut April 16, 1955
• Final Game August 26, 1957
• Born August 8, 1932 in Havana, Cuba

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Biographical Information

Vicente Amor, a young 17-year-old from Cuba, started his professional baseball career unattached and spent the 1950 season in the Longhorn League with the Big Spring Broncs. He went 6-5 in 20 appearances, pitching 95 innings with a 3.79 ERA. He spent four more seasons on the loose before the Chicago Cubs drafted him on November 22, 1954 from the Oakland Oaks of the Pacific Coast League in the 1954 Rule V Draft. Amor had just come off his best season as a professional in 1954 with the Oklahoma City Indians of the Texas League, winning 18 and losing 11, appearing in 41 games, pitching 245 innings with a 4.11 ERA.

Vicente started the 1955 season with the Cubs, but spent the bulk of the year with the Havana Sugar Kings, going 5-4 with a 3.27 ERA. With the Cubs, he pitched in 4 games, going 0-1 with a 4.50 ERA. He was to stay in the minors in 1956. The Cincinnati Redlegs picked him up before the 1957 season, and assigned him to the Sugar Kings, where he went 11-10 with a 2.68 ERA. He also got to pitch for the Redlegs nine time, winning 1 and losing 2 in 27 innings of work, with a 5.93 ERA. He was again with Havana in 1958, going 3-9 with a 5.19 ERA. Amor stayed there in 1959, going 9-8 with a 4.57 ERA. This was to be his last year on the circuit and he finished a ten-year career with a very decent record.

Vicente later lived in Hialeah, FL, where he owned a business that produced electrical signs. He was born in Cuba in the same year as Mike Fornieles and Chico Fernandez. He is a member of the Cuban Baseball Hall of Fame. His picture (in a Cubanas uniform) appears here: [1].

Sources

Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball: Third Edition
baseball-reference.com
SABR MILB Database:page