In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Chacón and the second or maternal family name is Cortina.

Andrés Pelayo Chacón Cortina (September 22, 1888 – March 11, 1971) was a Cuban professional baseball shortstop, first baseman, second baseman, right fielder and manager. He spent his American playing career in the Negro leagues, mostly with the Cuban Stars (East) of the Eastern Colored League, which he also managed from 1923 to 1927. He was also active in the Cuban League and in Venezuela's amateur leagues.

Nicknamed "Cortina" or "the Curtain", Chacón was elected to the Cuban Baseball Hall of Fame in 1949. In a 1952 player-voted poll by the Pittsburgh Courier, he was voted the fifth best all-time shortstop of the Negro leagues.[4]

Career

Chacón played from 1908 to 1932 with several clubs in the Cuban League, including Almendares, Azul, Club Fé, and Habana; he managed Cienfuegos to a championship in 1930. Over the course of his Cuban League career, he compiled 463 hits with a .246 batting average.[5]

In the Negro leagues, he played for both iterations of the Cuban Stars: the Western Stars, an independent team, from 1910 to 1916; and the Eastern Stars, which were a major league side (associated with the Eastern Colored League) from 1923 to 1929.[2] Along with Horacio Martínez, he was rated as one of the best Hispanic shortstops in the Negro Leagues.[6]

In the 1930s, Chacón played in the Venezuelan first division with the "Caribe" club, alongside fellow Cuban Cocaína García.[7] He managed Caribe to a division title in 1932, and Vargas to two more in 1937 and 1939.[8]

Chacón managed the Colombia national baseball team throughout the 1940s. At the 1947 Amateur World Series, held in Cartagena, Colombia, he led the team to its first world championship.[9]

Chacón's three sons, Elio, Armando y Pelayito, were all active baseball players in Venezuela. Elio Chacón was the seventh Venezuelan to play in Major League Baseball.[7]

Notes

  1. ^ On December 16, 2020, Major League Baseball declared the Negro leagues, from the span of 1920–1948, to be a "Major League".[1] Chacón's statistics reflect his time in the major Negro leagues from 1923–1927.

References

  1. ^ "MLB officially designates the Negro Leagues as 'Major League'". MLB.com. December 16, 2020. Retrieved August 7, 2023.
  2. ^ a b "The Cuban Stars Take Series From American Giants." Indianapolis Freeman, Indianapolis, Indiana, Saturday July 17, 1915, Page 4, Columns 4 to 6
  3. ^ "Cuban Stars Easily Beat Camden, 12-5" Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Sunday Morning, July 18, 1920, Page 17, Column 6
  4. ^ "1952 Pittsburgh Courier Poll of Greatest Black Players"
  5. ^ Bjarkmna, Peter C. Baseball with a Latin Beat. McFarland. p. 192.
  6. ^ "Horacio Martinez". SABR. Society for American Baseball Research.
  7. ^ a b Javier González; Carlos Figueroa Ruiz. Campos de Gloria: El beisbol en Venezuela, 127 años de historia 1895-2022 (PDF) (in Spanish). Biblioteca Digital Banesco. p. 235.
  8. ^ González and Ruiz, p. 277
  9. ^ "Béisbol es una pasión que está en el ADN de los cartageneros". El Universal. 1 June 2018. Retrieved 17 March 2025.


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