Felix Guilbe Colón (March 2, 1924 – June 20, 2010) was a Puerto Rican professional

baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding t ...

outfielder An outfielder is a person playing in one of the three defensive positions in baseball or softball, farthest from the batter. These defenders are the left fielder, the center fielder, and the right fielder. As an outfielder, their duty is to c ...

in the American

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in the 1940s. A native of

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, Guilbe was the brother of fellow Negro leaguer

Juan Guilbe Juan Guilbe Colón (June 26, 1914 – April 29, 1994) was a Puerto Rican professional baseball pitcher in the American Negro leagues in the 1940s. A native of Ponce, Puerto Rico, Guilbe was the brother of fellow Negro leaguer Felix Guilbe. ...

. Younger brother Felix pitched in the Negro leagues for the

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in 1946 and 1947. He died in Ponce in 2010 at age 86.

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