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Emilio "Millito" Navarro (born September 26, 1905 in the city of Patillas, Puerto Rico) was the first Puerto Rican to play baseball in the Negro Leagues. September 26 is the 269th day of the year (270th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 96 days remaining. ...
1905 (MCMV) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...
Patillas is a municipality of Puerto Rico. ...
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Navarro was born in Patillas but, raised in Ponce. His father was a well known shoemaker in Patillas who passed away when Navarro was 6 years old. His widowed mother soon moved to Ponce where she had family. In Ponce he attended Castillo Public School and worked after school. His first contact with the game came about when he went to watch the school team play. Navarro developed a burning desire to play baseball. On one occasion he didn't have enough money to pay for an entrance ticket to watch a game between the Castillo and Reina teams. He therefore, jumped a fence which happened to be in the outfield. It so happened that one of the Castillo team members became sick and when the coach saw Navarro jump the fence he asked him to play. He did and ever since then he's been playing baseball. Image File history File links Navarro. ...
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Ponce, the second largest city in Puerto Rico outside of the San Juan metropolitan area is named after the Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de León. ...
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After graduating from high school, Navarro was offered a grant to attend the University of Puerto Rico in Mayagüez, which he turned down. Instead 23 year old, Navarro felt that he should help his family financially and believed that he was more than ready to play in the Major Leagues in the U.S.. The University of Puerto Rico (UPR) is the university system of Puerto Rico. ...
Mayagüez (pronounced Mah-yah-GWEHZ) is the third largest city of Puerto Rico. ...
Major League Baseball (MLB) is the highest level of play in professional baseball in North America. ...
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In the 1920s, the United States was a racially segregated nation and his colour was therefore a problem; in baseball, blacks were then not permitted to play together with their white counterparts. As a consequence of this policy, a group of white and black businessmen joined forces and organized their own "Negro Leagues". Here the teams would play against each other and even had their own "World Series". Two of those teams were the "Cuban Stars", owned by Alex Pompez, and the "Cuban Giants". Both of those teams consisted mainly of black or dark-skinned latino players. Sometimes referred to as the Jazz Age or primarily in North America and in Australia as the Roaring Twenties . In Europe it is sometimes refered to as the Golden Twenties. ...
White (noun, white or whites; adjective, white people) is a color-defined term used as a form of ethno-racial classification. ...
The World Series is the championship series of Major League Baseball in the United States and Canada, the culmination of the sports postseason each October. ...
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Navarro played for two years with the Cuban Stars and had a batting average of .337. The experience was bittersweet for Navarro, especially when they played in the South. Not only did he feel discriminated because of the color of his skin, but also because he didn't speak english. After playing with the Negro Leagues, Navarro traveled and played for teams in the Dominican Republic and in Venezuela. Batting average is a statistic in both baseball and cricket measuring the performance of baseball hitters and cricket batsmen, respectively. ...
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By the time baseball had become integrated in the U.S., Navarro had returned to the island. The experience and knowledge that he gained served him well when he became one of the founders of the Puerto Rican baseball team, "Leones de Ponce" (Ponce Lions). He played, coached and did a little bit of everything for the team. He dedicated 20 years to the team.
After Navarro retired from active baseball, he was named administrator of the "Juan Ramon Loubriel Stadium" in Ponce - a psoition that he held for 20 years. The Juan Ramon Loubreil Stadium is a 15,000 seat stadium in Bayamon, Puerto Rico that is primarily used for soccer. ...
Navarro reached his century on September 26, 2005, many tributes to honor him have been planned in Puerto Rico and the United States. His life and experiences in baseball will be part of an American documentary called "Beisbol" which will be about the contributions and influence of Hispanics in American's national pastime. 2005 (MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Hispanic, as used in the United States, is one of several terms used to categorize persons whose ancestry hails either from Spain, the Spanish-speaking countries of Latin America, or the original settlers of the traditionally Spanish-held Southwestern United States. ...
Honours
Navarro was inducted into the "Puerto Rican Sports Hall of Fame" in 2004.
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