Juan Guilbe Colón (June 26, 1914 – April 29, 1994) was a Puerto Rican professional

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in the American

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in the 1940s. A native of

Ponce, Puerto Rico Ponce (, , , ) is both a city and a municipality on the southern coast of Puerto Rico. The city is the seat of the municipal government. Ponce, Puerto Rico's most populated city outside the San Juan metropolitan area, was founded on 12 August 1 ...

, Guilbe was the brother of fellow Negro leaguer Felix Guilbe. Older brother Juan pitched in the Negro leagues for the

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in 1940, and the

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in 1947, and was inducted into the Puerto Rican Baseball Hall of Fame in 1992. Guilbe died in Ponce in 1994 at age 79.

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