They Will Honor Bobby Salamanca at the Palmar de Junco Hall of Fame

December 30, 2019

The prominent commentator Juan Antonio Salamanca, who left an irreplaceable void in sports broadcasting, will be inducted into the Hall of Fame of the Palmar de Junco, in the province of Matanzas.

With one hundred percent of the votes, Bobby heads a list of baseball greats and personalities linked to this discipline, which also includes the well-known researcher Ismael Sené, also in the executive category, as was announced here at a press conference.

Bobby Salamanca is perhaps the most enduring hallmark of broadcasting in revolutionary baseball, someone who in the view of many analysts turned his professional practice into pure art.

The list of those who will be immortalized in the historic Matanzas park is completed by Juan Manrique, José Antonio Huelga, Changa Mederos, Leonardo Cárdenas, José Rosario Domec Cardenal and Pedro Ramos, who shone on the baseball diamonds in different eras.

Directly, Colonel of the Liberating Army José Dolores Amieva Fuentes will enter the Hall, considered one of the initiators of baseball in the Athens of Cuba.

The election results were announced last Friday, a day on which the 145th anniversary of the first official baseball game held in Cuba (December 27, 1874) was commemorated, with the setting at the mythical stadium.

In tribute to this historic event, a plaque was unveiled and sports figures from the Matanzas territory and the Cuban capital played a friendly game. The book Desde el césped de mi estadio, authored by Ismael Sené, was also presented.

Outstanding former athletes such as Antonio Scull and Andrés Ayón had words of praise for the Yumurino project and admitted that it is a great privilege to have played on the grass of the Palmar de Junco.

The most outstanding athletes of the province in 1919 participated in the event, as well as outstanding former baseball players such as Félix Isasi, Gaspar Curro Pérez, Rigoberto Rosique, Fernando Sánchez, Lázaro Junco, José Estrada, Julio Germán Fernández, Jesús Torriente and Jorge Trigoura, among many others.

The temple of the immortals of the sport of balls and strikes in Matanzas opened its doors in February 2016, at the Palmar de Junco, the oldest baseball field in the world still in active use.

The solemn ceremony of induction of these outstanding figures will take place on February 6.