 He started in Curaçao with the Korporaal Cardinals, later, in the 1960s he was one of the founders and players of the Caribe from Groningen in the Netherlands.In that period he also started his coaching career as a coach at the Rayon Het Noorden team.In the 1970s and 80s he was working as a baseball coach in his native Curaçao with the Wildcats Felipe II and the Curaçao national baseball team.