Juan Pachot is a former

softball Softball is a game similar to baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. Softball is played competitively at club levels, the college level, and the professional level. The game was first created in 1887 in Chicago by George Hanc ...

player from

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 ...

who was inducted to the International Softball Federation Hall of Fame. Pachot enjoyed a long career as a professional softball player, establishing himself as one of the best, and best-known, Puerto Rican players in that sport. His career spanned 25 years despite contracting polio at an early age. Juan

MVP In team sports, a most valuable player award, abbreviated 'MVP award', is an honor typically bestowed upon an individual (or individuals, in the instance of a tie) whose individual performance is the greatest in an entire league, for a particu ...

represented Puerto Rico at the Pan American games, the World Championship of Softball and the Central American and Caribbean games. In the latter tournament he won three batting titles and was voted MVP twice. Juan Pachot retired with a batting average of .365. In 1997, he became the fourth Puerto Rican to be inducted into the International Softball Federation Hall of Fame, joining Alejandro Cruz, among others. Ivelisse Echevarria and five other Puerto Ricans have subsequently joined Pachot at that museum.

External links

Hall of Fame's page about Pachot
Puerto Rican softball players Living people Sportspeople from Ponce, Puerto Rico Year of birth missing (living people) {{PuertoRico-softball-bio-stub