Among the nine nominated there are included figures as the brothers Roberto and Oliverio Ortiz, the international Luis Ulacia and the experienced Felipe Sarduy. Others that appear in this first group of "essential ones" are the pitchers Gaspar Legón, Juan Pérez Pérez, Oscar Romero y Eliécer Álvarez; and the powerful batter Miguel Cuevas.

In this first list are the biggest talents of the camagüeyan baseball of all the times, there extoled the narrator and commentator Luis Orlando Pantoja, from the provincial broadcasting Radio Cadena Agramonte. "But this is just the first step, which will have to continue, since the target must be to recognize all those who have shone in our national sport".

The refoundation of the Hall of Fame of the Cuban Baseball was an old wish of players, specialists and fans of the sport. The first stage of functioning of this institution had spread from 1939 until 1961, with successive head offices in La Tropical and the Latinoamericano stadiums.

Nevertheless, after the elimination of the professional sport in Cuba, the hall stopped to work and for over half a century there were recognized the baseball players who were working out of the island nation, which were grouped under the optics of an entity located in Miami.

The same center of the south of Florida was the one that selected to only two Camagüeyans recognized till now by a hall of fame at "national" level: the Ortiz brothers.

The goal of this hall is not to repeat past errors and recognize the "whole" best Cuban base ball that now kicks off to be organized and that will be located permanently in the Latinoamericano stadium, of the capital.

"In these moments we are constituting the committees of provincial proposals, which will take the lists of candidates to the committee of national selection and it will take them to the committee of election, which is the one that finally will grant access periodically to the hall", said Oreidis Pimentel Pérez, spokesman of the committee of election at national level and president of the instance in the Camagüeyan territory.

With a long history in the world of the balls and the strikes, and teams and personalities that marked epoch in the baseball of the island, Camagüey could have a wide group of representatives in the Cuban baseball hall, an institution that, as its promoters ensure, returns to remain of definitive form.

Translated by BA in English Language, Manuel Barrera Téllez

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