Miguel Gaspar

Miguel Gaspar
Catcher
Born: (1929-09-07)7 September 1929 Empalme, Sonora, Mexico
Died: 22 July 2012(2012-07-22) (aged 82) Mexico
Batted: Right Threw: Right
Member of the Mexican Professional
Baseball Hall of Fame
Induction	1994

Miguel Gaspar (19 September 1929 – 22 July 2012) was a Mexican professional baseball catcher and manager in the Mexican League, the highest level of professional baseball in Mexico.

Born in Empalme, Sonora, Gaspar also played in American minor leagues from 1950 to 1958. He hit four home runs in a Rio Grande Valley League game while playing with the Laredo Apaches in 1950.[1] All told, he played professionally from 1950 to 1974 and he managed in 1959, from 1975 to 1977, in 1979, from 1985 to 1986, in 1988 and in 1993.[2] He was elected to the Mexican Professional Baseball Hall of Fame in 1994.[3]

In 2020, Gaspar was selected as the starting catcher on the Mexican League Historic Ideal Team by a committee of baseball journalists and historians.[4]

His nickname was Pilo.

References

1. Araujo Bojórquez, Alfonso (26 December 2020). "Miguel Gaspar (Pilo) bateó cuatro jonrones en un juego". Momento Deportivo RD (in Spanish). Retrieved 29 May 2023.
2. BR Minors
3. HoF Website Archived 2012-02-08 at the Wayback Machine
4. "La LMB dio a conocer su Novena Ideal Histórica" (in Spanish). Major League Baseball. 28 June 2020. Archived from the original on 1 September 2020. Retrieved 29 May 2023.