The 40–40 club includes a Cuban-American player who also competed in which two other sports?
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40–40 club In Major League Baseball (MLB), the 40–40 club is the group of batters who have collected 40 home runs and 40 stolen bases in a single season. Jose Canseco was the first to achieve this, doing so in 1988 after having predicted the feat in April of that year. The most recent player to reach the milestone is Alfonso Soriano, achieving the feat during the 2006 season.
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Jose Canseco José Canseco Capas Jr. (born July 2, 1964), is a Cuban-American former Major League Baseball (MLB) outfielder and designated hitter. Canseco has admitted using performance-enhancing drugs during his playing career, and in 2005 wrote a tell-all book, "", in which he claimed that the vast majority of MLB players use steroids. After retiring from Major League Baseball, he also competed in boxing and mixed martial arts.
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Cuban Stars (West) The Cuban Stars were a team of Cuban professional baseball players that competed in the United States Negro leagues from 1907 to 1932. The team was also sometimes known as the Cuban Stars of Havana, Stars of Cuba, Cuban All-Stars, Havana Reds, Almendares Blues or simply as the Cubans. For one season, 1921, the team played home games in Cincinnati, Ohio and was known as the Cincinnati Cubans.
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Luis Franco Luis Franco Vazquez (born January 14, 1982) is a Cuban pro boxer best known forparticipating at the 2004 Summer Olympics in the featherweight division (– 57 kg).
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1991 Pan American Games The 11th Pan American Games were held in Havana, Cuba from August 2 to August 18, 1991. There were 4,519 athletes from 39 countries of the PASO community, with events in 33 different sports. The main stadium was the Estadio Panamericano, a multi-use stadium in Havana that holds 50,000 people.
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Cuba at the 2008 Summer Olympics Cuba competed in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, People's Republic of China. As of 8 August 2008, 165 Cuban athletes had qualified to compete in 16 sports. The country's flagbearer at the opening ceremony was wrestler Mijaín López.
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Rafael Carbonell Rafael Carbonell Carrion (born November 25, 1943 in Oriente, Ciudad de la Habana) is a retired boxer from Cuba, who represented his native country in three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1964.
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Chico Fernández Humberto Fernández Pérez (March 2, 1932 – June 11, 2016), better known as Chico Fernández, was a Cuban professional baseball shortstop. He played eight seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1956 to 1963 for the Brooklyn Dodgers, Philadelphia Phillies, Detroit Tigers, and New York Mets. In 1965 he played one season in the Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Hanshin Tigers.
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Andrea Borrell Andrea Leonora Borrell Hernández (born November 10, 1963 in Las Villas, Villa Clara) is a retired female basketball player from Cuba. She twice competed for her native country at the Summer Olympics, finishing in fifth (1980) and in fourth place (1992) with the Women's National Team.
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José Valdivielso José Martinez de Valdivielso (born "José Martinez de Valdivielso López", May 22, 1934) is a Cuban-born former professional baseball player. A shortstop, he appeared in 401 games over all or part of five seasons in Major League Baseball, between 1955 and 1961, for the Washington Senators and their later incarnation, the Minnesota Twins. The native of Matanzas threw and batted right-handed; he was listed as 6 ft tall and 175 lb .
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Peter C. Bjarkman Peter C. Bjarkman (born May 19, 1941) is a baseball historian, freelance author, and commentator on the baseball played in Cuba after the 1959 Communist revolution. He currently provides regular internet commentary on Cuban League baseball as a contributing writer for LaVidaBaseball.com and as Senior Writer for the US-based internet website BaseballdeCuba.com and has appeared frequently on radio and television sports talk shows as an observer and analyst of the Cuban national sport. He has also published more than three dozen books ranging in scope from Major League Baseball history and college and professional basketball history to sports biographies for young adult readers. In spring 2017 Bjarkman was honored with a SABR (Society for American Baseball Research) Henry Chadwick Award, the society’s highest research recognition established in 2009 “to honor baseball's great researchers – historians, statisticians, annalists, and archivists – for their invaluable contributions to making baseball the game that links America’s present with its past.”
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Cuba at the 1968 Summer Olympics Cuba competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, Mexico. 115 competitors, 101 men and 14 women, took part in 78 events in 13 sports.
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René Bonora René Bonora (born 20 June 1951) is a Cuban former footballer who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics.
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José Pérez (athlete) José Roquez Pérez (born 19 March 1971) is a retired Cuban athlete who specialised in the 400 metres hurdles. He represented his country at two World Championships, in 1993 and 1995, reaching the semifinals on both occasion. In addition he won multiple medals on regional level.
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Jackie Hernández Jacinto Hernández Zulueta (born September 11, 1940) is a Cuban former shortstop and third baseman who played in Major League Baseball from 1965 to 1973.
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List of Cuban football players who have defected to the United States List of Cuban football players who have defected to the United States
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Mike de la Hoz Miguel Angel de la Hoz Piloto (born October 2, 1938 in Havana, Cuba) is a former Major League Baseball infielder.
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Kim Yong-ha He was appointed as the Head coach of the Cuban national football team for the 1970 Central American and Caribbean Games and the 1971 Pan American Games tournament.
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1930 Central American and Caribbean Games The 2nd Central American and Caribbean Games were held in Havana in Cuba from March 15 to April 5, 1930. The sports festival featured 606 athletes from nine countries (Costa Rica, Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama, and Puerto Rico), competing in ten sports. Women participated for the first time in this second edition. Football (soccer) was added.
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1964–65 Cuban National Series Industriales began to make a habit of Cuban National Series titles during the 1964-65 season, the fourth installment of Cuba's new post-revolutionary amateur baseball league. The team, representing Havana, won its third straight title. For the first time, each team played an equal number of games (39).
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José Guerra (diver) José Antonio Guerra Oliva (born August 9, 1979 in Santiago de Cuba) is a male diver from Cuba. He represented his native country at four consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 2000 (Sydney, Australia). Guerra won a gold and three silver medals at Pan American Games during his career. He also won 2 gold medals at Central American Games becoming the only Cuban male diver in history achieving this. The Cuban diver is the only diver in his country to win a gold medal at World University Games in 1999 Palma de Mallorca adding a silver and a bronze in Beijing in 2001. Being the only Cuban diver to lead the Diving World Ranking in the history, back in 2005. Winner of Forty (40) medals at the Diving Grand Prix and 130 medals total along his career (until April 2011) (98 in international events and 32 in nationals), and is considered the best diver in Cuba of all time. His coach is Lino Socorro Aleman, from Matanzas, Cuba.
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Ariel Hernández (boxer) Ariel Hernández Azcuy (born May 3, 1970 – April 8, 1972) is a boxer from Cuba, who won two Olympic gold medals in the Middleweight division (71–75 kg); at the 1992 and 1996 Summer Olympics. He captured the world title at the 1995 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Berlin, just two months after having triumphed at the Pan American Games in Mar del Plata.