Billy Berroa

Porfirio Antonio Berroa Carbucia (February 27, 1928 – October 17, 2007) was a

Recognized as one of the most important Spanish voices in baseball, Berroa began announcing

Berroa also covered the Caribbean Series, the Olympic Games, as well as professional boxing, and announced Winter League baseball in the Dominican Republic for 50 years, the last 23 years with the Escogido Lions club. On October 17, 1998, he was selected to the Dominican Republic's Sports Hall of Fame. He was also elected into the Hispanic Heritage Baseball Museum Hall of Fame in 2005 At Shea Stadium in New york.

Berroa died of prostate cancer in Santo Domingo, D.R., at the age of 79.^{[citation needed]}

References

Sources

• New York Mets broadcasters Archived 2017-07-24 at the Wayback Machine
• NYM/MLB obituary
• El Diario (Spanish)

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