Higinio Vélez
Cuban baseball manager
Higinio Vélez Carrión (27 July 1946 – 12 May 2021) was a Cuban baseball manager and executive. He was the longtime president of the Baseball Federation of Cuba as well as manager of the Cuba national baseball team, which he led to three consecutive championships at the Baseball World Cup from 2003 to 2005, an Olympic gold medal at Athens 2004 and a silver medal in the inaugural edition of the World Baseball Classic in 2006.
Biography
Vélez was born on 27 July 1946 in Songo – La Maya in the Oriente Province (currently in the Santiago de Cuba Province). He was born into a peasant family and learned to play baseball thanks to his father, Juan Walberto Vélez. He played as a shortstop and made it into regional teams. In 1966, he enrolled at the Escuela Superior de Educación Física (Higher School of Physical Education) in Havana, where he joined the school's baseball team. In his third year, manager Juan Ealo informed him that he would no longer play and instead appointed him as the team's new manager.
In 1970, after graduating, Vélez joined Mineros, the baseball team that represented Santiago de Cuba at the Cuban National Series, as assistant to manager Roberto Ledo. He worked as the Mineros' first base coach and physical trainer.
After leading Santiago de Cuba to three straight championships in the Cuban National Series (1999–2001), he became the manager of the Cuba national baseball team, that would take home a gold medal from the 2004 Summer Olympics.
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