Long time baseball man Preston Gomez has died:
Gomez, who worked in the sport as a scout, coach, manager and executive, was part of the Angels organization for the last 28 years. He most recently served as a special assistant to the general manager.
“His influence and impact on so many throughout the industry is impossible to measure,” Angels general manager Tony Reagins said. “The Angels family has lost one of its invaluable members, and one of baseball’s truly great ambassadors.”
Gomez was born in Cuba, so I have a question. Was he the first Hispanic manager? According to his obituary, he was inducted into the Hispanic Baseball Heritage Museum’s Hall of Fame. Does Preston not get the recognition because he was light skinned enough to play in the majors before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier?
My thoughts go out to his family and friends.
Al Lopez was managing well before Preston.
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Lopez was born in Tampa, perhaps Preston was the first manager born in the islands?
Both Armando Marsans and Rafael Almeida were Cuban born, both played in 1911 for teh Reds. Marsans was touted as “Pure Castille” (in an attempt to lily up his heritage) the next year Mike Gonzalez showed up in the Braves lineup, the year after that Merito Acosta showed up in DC. By the time Gomez made his brief WW2 apperance 23 Cuban born players had played MLB.