Cristobal torriente images

  • One of the many images in the Museum's collection depicts Babe Ruth batting in Havana, Cuba, at the same exhibition game Torriente played in on Nov. 6, 1920.
  • Cristóbal Torriente We possess the all-too-alluring images provided by fading sepia photographic portraits and dog-eared collectible tobacco cards.
  • He was nicknamed the “Cuban Babe Ruth” (or, as some quipped back, Ruth was the “American Cristóbal Torriente”), partly for his legendary, almost-mythic.

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    "If I should see Torriente walking up the other side of the street, I would säga, 'There walks a ballclub.'" -- Indianapolis ABCs manager C.I. Taylor

    Few players in baseball history have received such universal admiration from their counterparts coinciding with such minimal mainstream recognition as Cristóbal Torriente. He was nicknamed the “Cuban Babe Ruth” (or, as some quipped back, Ruth was the “American Cristóbal Torriente”), partly for his legendary, almost-mythic outhomering of Ruth in a head-to-head series in Cuba, but mostly for his all-around excellence.

    Torriente, a dual threat known mostly for his bat that never slumped, did everything with ease. He hit for power. He hit to all fields. He had deceptive speed, making him an elite player on the basepaths and especially in center field.

    He once hit a ball so hard that it left a small crater in the ground next to Frankie Frisch at third base as it blazed into left field.

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    #GoingDeep: Cristóbal Torriente Bests the Bambino

    “I was down in Havana in 1920 with Babe Ruth and about 12 of the New York Giants,” Frankie Frisch recalled. “That’s over 50 years ago, but I can still recall Torriente. I think inom was playing third base at that time, and he hit a ground ball by me, and you know that’s one of those things – look in the glove, it might be there. But it wasn’t in my glove. It dug a hole about a foot deep on its way to left field. And I’m lycklig I wasn’t in front of it!”

    El Día newspaper, based out of Cuba, confirmed this konto, with a prideful one of their own.

    “Yesterday Cristóbal Torriente elevated himself to the greatest heights of glory and popularity,” the editors wrote of their new-found hero. “His hitting will enter Cuban baseball history as one of its most brilliant pages. Almendares' potent weapon is responsible for the fame that Cuba fans now share and who now better understand his ability to hit a baseball.”

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    Cristóbal Torriente

    “I think I was playing third base at the time, and he hit a ground ball by me…. It dug a hole about a foot deep on its way to left eld. … In those days Torriente was a hell of a ballplayer. Christ, I’d like to whitewash him and bring him up.” — Frankie Frisch (quoted by John B. Holway, Blackball Stars)

    The legends and hyperbole — like Frankie Frisch’s report of a batted ball excavating the infield turf — repeatedly trump the solid factual evidence emerging from much of Cuba’s prehistoric era during the final two nineteenth-century decades and initial two twentieth-century decades. We possess the all-too-alluring images provided by fading sepia photographic portraits and dog-eared collectible tobacco cards. There are indeed substantial collections of sketchy box scores and skeletal line scores provided by chroniclers like Severo Nieto and Raúl Diez Muro — as notable for their inconsistencies and glaring inaccuracies as for any subst