Ángel Torres (1928–9 December 2010) was an author, historian and sportswriter who penned numerous Spanish-language books, usually about Cuban baseball.
Books he wrote include ''La Historia Del Beisbol Cubano 1878-1976'', ''La Leyenda Del Beisbol Cubano'', ''Tres Siglos De Beisbol Cubano'', ''El Legado Deportivo'' and ''The Baseball Bible'' (in English).
He also worked for
Fox Sports
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, calling regular season and World Series baseball games in Spanish alongside
Ulpiano Cos Villa.
In 2009, he won the National Award for Journalism from the National Journalists Association of Cuba in Exile.
Personal life
He was born in 1928 in
La Habana, Cuba
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.
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References
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1928 births
2010 deaths
Cuban non-fiction writers
Baseball writers
People from La Habana Province
Cuban emigrants to the United States
20th-century Cuban historians
21st-century Cuban historians
Cuban male non-fiction writers