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Clemente Carreras

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In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Carreras and the second or maternal family name is González.
Clemente Carreras
Infielder / Left fielder / manager
Born: (1914-03-25)March 25, 1914
Havana, Cuba
Died: November 19, 1989(1989-11-19) (aged 75)
Batted: Right
Threw: Right
Negro league baseball debut
1937, for the Cuban Stars (East)
Last appearance
1941, for the New York Cubans
NNL statistics
Batting average.276
Home runs6
Runs batted in32
Stats at Baseball Reference Edit this at Wikidata
Teams
Medals
Manager for  Cuba
Amateur World Series
Gold medal – first place 1952 Havana Team
Gold medal – first place 1961 San José Team

Clemente Carreras González (March 25, 1914 – November 19, 1989)[1] was a Cuban professional baseball third baseman, second baseman, and left fielder. Nicknamed "Sungo", he played in the Negro leagues from 1937 to 1941, including two major league seasons for the New York Cubans from 1940 to 1941. He also played for the Cubans in 1938 and with the Eastern Cuban Stars in 1937 and 1939.[2]

Carreras played with Alijadores de Tampico of the Mexican League (LMB), the highest level of professional baseball in Mexico, in 1943. He later skippered the LMBB's Sultanes de Monterrey from 1962 to 1964, the Ángeles de Puebla in 1976 and the Alijadores de Tampico in 1977.[3]

Carreras managed the Cuba national baseball team to two Amateur World Series titles, in 1952 and 1961. The latter tournament one of the first international competitions that the country participated in after the Cuban Revolution.[4] Cuba won the championship, but Carreras defected after the conclusion of the tournament, choosing to remain in Costa Rica. Tito Fuentes and Bert Campaneris also defected following the tournament.[5]

Following his defection, Carreras managed in the Mexican League, leading Sultanes de Monterrey to a championship in 1962. He later had brief stints managing for the Ángeles de Puebla and the Alijadores de Tampico.[6] He also coached in Nicaragua, Spain, and Puerto Rico.[5]

He was elected to the Cuban Exile Baseball Hall of Fame in 1998.[7][a]

Notes

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  1. ^ Cuban Baseball Hall of Fame inductions between 1962 and 2007 are not formally recognized by the Baseball Federation of Cuba

References

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  1. ^ Torres, Angel (1997-01-01). La leyenda del beisbol cubano, 1878-1996 (in Spanish). Angel Torres Publishing Company. p. 263. ISBN 0961411015.
  2. ^ Negro League website Archived 2011-10-13 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ BR Minors
  4. ^ Bjarkman, Peter C. (2007). A History of Cuban Baseball, 1864–2006. McFarland. p. 200.
  5. ^ a b "El otro escándalo de fugas del béisbol cubano fue protagonizado por la dirección del equipo". Swing Completo. 5 October 2023. Retrieved 2 July 2025.
  6. ^ "Los managers campeones de los Sultanes". La Aficion. 20 February 2017. Retrieved 2 July 2025.
  7. ^ Cubanball.com
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