Arthur Benjamin "Chicho" Jesurun (10 July 1947 – 16 December 2006) was a Netherlands-Antillian

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player, coach, manager, and scout.

Biography

During his playing career, Jesurun played for several teams. He started in

Curaçao Curaçao ( ; ; pap, Kòrsou, ), officially the Country of Curaçao ( nl, Land Curaçao; pap, Pais Kòrsou), is a Lesser Antilles island country in the southern Caribbean Sea and the Dutch Caribbean region, about north of the Venezuela coast ...

with the Korporaal Cardinals, later, in the 1960s he was one of the founders and players of the

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from

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in the

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. In that period he also started his coaching career as a coach at the Rayon Het Noorden team. In the 1970s and 1980s, Jesurun was working as a baseball coach in his native Curaçao with the Wildcats Felipe II and the Curaçao national baseball team. With this team he reached the second spot in the national league, before winning the league in three consecutive years. Later he also became an

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in the sport. Jesurun also worked as a scout for several

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teams, including the

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and the

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. During his time with the Braves, he brought fellow Antillean

Andruw Jones Andruw Rudolf Jones (; born April 23, 1977) is a Curaçaoan former baseball outfielder and designated hitter who played 17 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB), most notably for the Atlanta Braves. Jones also played for the Los Angeles Dodgers ...

to the team. He also worked for

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n professional team Los Tiburones de la Guairia, where he become an assistant to the owner. Other teams he managed were the

Amsterdam Pirates Amsterdam Pirates is a Dutch baseball and softball organization based in Amsterdam. It was founded as an expansion of the football club SV Rap on 17 February 1959 by Loek Loevendie. In the first years it was known as the RAP Pirates, but after ...

and Almere '90. Jesurun also worked in other functions at Dutch clubs

Pioniers Pioniers is a baseball and softball team based in Hoofddorp, the Netherlands. The club is currently sponsored by Raamsdonkveer-based construction company ''Vaessen BV'' and the team is officially known as the Vaessen Pioniers. Pioniers baseball ...

and

SV ADO SV ADO was a baseball club based in The Hague, the Netherlands. The club's top men's team was a regular participant in the Honkbal Hoofdklasse, the highest level of Dutch baseball. The organization dissolved itself in 2015 after declaring bankrupt ...

. In the years prior to his death, he was a bench coach at

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, a Dutch baseball club from

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. The period in

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came after he worked for the

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. The two teams became partners and the Pirates temporarily changed their name to the Amsterdam Expos, and were managed by Jesurun for four years. Besides Jones for the Braves, Jesurun contracted players like Vince Rooi,

Danny Rombley Danny Rombley (born 26 November 1979, in Amersfoort) is a Dutch baseball player for the Amsterdam Pirates. He also played six years in Minor League Baseball. Career Rombley was selected by coach Robert Eenhoorn in the team that represents the ...

, Tim van Pareren,

Roger Bernadina Rogearvin Argelo "Roger" Bernadina (born June 12, 1984) is a Dutch Curaçaoan professional baseball outfielder for Curaçao Neptunus of the Honkbal Hoofdklasse. He has played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Washington Nationals, Philadelphi ...

(for the Expos),

Rick VandenHurk Henricus "Rick" Nicolas van den Hurk ( Eindhoven, May 22, 1985) is a Dutch professional baseball pitcher who is currently a free agent. He has also pitched in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Florida Marlins, Baltimore Orioles, and Pittsbur ...

, Kenny Berkenbosch and Jeffrey de Vrieze (for the Marlins). As of 1977, Jesurun also worked on radio, starting as a baseball reporter, and later he presented the news for

Radio Netherlands Radio Netherlands (RNW; nl, Radio Nederland Wereldomroep) was a public radio and television network based in Hilversum, producing and transmitting programmes for international audiences outside the Netherlands from 1947 to 2012. Its services i ...

in the

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language. During the 2005 Baseball World Cup, which was held in the Netherlands, he was featured as a reporter on the Dutch sport broadcasting program '' Langs de Lijn''. Jesurun died in 2006 at the age of 59 due to a

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