Bernardo Baró

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Bernardo Baró
Outfielder
Born: (1896-01-27)January 27, 1896 Cárdenas, Cuba
Died: June 1, 1930(1930-06-01) (aged 34) Unknown
Batted: Left	Threw: Left
Professional debut
1915 for the Almendares (baseball)
Last professional appearance
1928 for the Cuban Stars (East)
Teams
Almendares (baseball) (1915-1916) San Francisco Park (1915-1916) Cuban Stars (East) (1916, 1922-1928) Cuban Stars (West) (1917-1920)^[1] Cincinnati Cuban Stars (1921)

Bernardo Baró (February 27, 1896 – June 1930) was a Cuban professional baseball player in the Negro leagues and the Cuban League. Primarily an outfielder, he also played some games as a pitcher or an infielder. He played from 1913 to 1930 for the Cuban Stars (West), the Cuban Stars (East), and the Kansas City Monarchs.

Baró played winter baseball in the Cuban League from 1915 to 1929. He led the league in batting average in 1922/23 with an average of .401. He ranks fifth all-time in Cuban League career batting average with an average of .311. In 1945 he was elected to the Cuban Baseball Hall of Fame.^[2]

Notes

↑ "Cuban Stars Defeat St. Louis Giants, 9-6" St. Louis Globe-Democrat, St. Louis, Missouri, July 8, 1920, Page 8
↑ Figueredo 2003, pp. 145, 484, 502, 508.

References

Figueredo, Jorge S. (2003), Cuban Baseball: A Statistical History, 1878–1961, Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, ISBN 0-7864-1250-X
Negro League Baseball Museum

External links

Negro league and Cuban League statistics and player information from Seamheads.com, or Baseball-Reference (Negro leagues)

Members of the Cuban Baseball Hall of Fame

Persondata
Name	Baro, Bernardo
Alternative names
Short description	Cuban baseball player
Date of birth	February 27, 1896
Place of birth
Date of death	1930
Place of death

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