Category | Player Date of Birth | 08.01.1942 Date of Death | 30.08.2005 Position | Center Height | 203cm (6'7") Country | Puerto Rico
Clubs
Cangrejeros de Santurce: 1957-1967 and 1969-1976
Picadero Damm: 1967-1968
Indios de Canóvanas: 1977-1978
Mets de Guaynabo : 1979
Cardenales de Río Piedras: 1980
Taínos de Mayagüez: 1981-1982
Club Highlights
Champion of the 1962 Puerto Rican League
National Team
Played in 5 Olympic Games (Rome 1960, Tokyo 1964, Mexico 1968, Munich 1972 and Montreal 1976), in 1 World Championship (Puerto Rico 1974) and in Centroamerican and Panamerican Games
Individual Highlights
IOC's Olympic Order
His 5 Olympic Games (from 1960 to 1976) represented the first time that a team-sport athlete participated in 5 Olympic Games (in basketball, this record has since then been tied by Oscar Schmidt -Brazil- and Andrew Gaze -Australia-)
Played an impressive number of 25 seasons in the Puerto Rican League, scoring a total of 9.512 points
4 times MVP of the Puerto Rican League: 1962, 1967, 1970 and 1971
6 times Best Defensive Player of the Puerto Rican League: 1964, 1966, 1969, 1970, 1971 and 1972
2 times Top Scorer of the Puerto Rican League: 1960 and 1962