| Birth: | Mar. 18, 1916 | | Death: | Dec. 30, 1951 | 
Major League Baseball Player. He was the first Puerto Rican born Major League Baseball player. Bithorn played for the Chicago Cubs and later the Chicago White Sox, during which he suffered a career-ending injury. His MLB career stats included a 34-31 record with 185 strikeouts, a 3.16 ERA, 30 complete games, eight shutouts, five saves, and 509 innings pitched in 105 games (53 as a starter). He tried to make a comeback in the Mexican winter league. While in Mexico, he was gunned down by a corrupt police officer who was later sentenced to prison for his murder. In 1962, a sports coliseum in his hometown of San Juan, Puerto Rico (adjacent to Roberto Clemente Coliseum, named after another deceased San Juan native Major League Baseball player) was named in his memory. Hiram Bithorn Stadium is a very common professional sports arena today, and was the home of the Montreal Expos (now the Washington Nationals) for the short year before they moved to Washington after 2004. (bio by: RipkenFan86)
Search Amazon for Hiram Bithorn | | | Burial:
Cementerio Buxeda Memorial Park
Carolina Municipality
Puerto Rico, USA |
Maintained by: Find A Grave
Originally Created by: RipkenFan86
Record added: Dec 23, 2007
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I'm sorry you were taken from us so tragically, Hiram Gabriel. Rest in Peace. See you at the ballpark in Heaven.
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Mary
Added: Feb. 22, 2012 |
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