Andrés Ayón, Cuban sports legend, dies

October 27, 2021

Victim of a heart attack died this Sunday in Havana, the former ballplayer Andrés Ayón Broown, glory of Cuban sports.

Ayón, 84 years old, played in Cuba's professional league with the Marianao and Almendares teams; he won titles in two Caribbean series; excelled in the Minor Leagues up to AAA level in the United States, and was on the verge of the Major Leagues in the early 1960s.

In Mexican baseball he obtained several titles and league leadership awards, won three MVP awards and pitched two no-hit, no-run games, one of those perfect.

Press sources indicate that Andrés accumulated 367 wins among the professional leagues of Cuba, the United States, Mexico, and Nicaragua.

In our country he also stood out as manager of the Industriales team between the 1982 and 1985 seasons.

Until the time his health weakened, in early 2020, Andrés collaborated on baseball development projects on the Island.

After battling like the warrior he was with the aftermath of a cerebral infarction for more than a year, Andrés Ayón Brown was unable to complete this game for life and died in Havana a few days after turning 84 years old. At his passing, he was the only Cuban member of the Mexican Baseball Hall of Fame still living, and one of the last surviving members of the mythical Havana Sugar Kings.