The Duarte Province Sports Union announces to the entire Duartista community and the country that this past Sunday, January 1, a stellar baseball player athlete passed awayPedro Reynosobetter known as (La Carpia).
The information was offered to us by the prominent sports writer Santana Martínez, who said that Carpia Reynoso was a stellar pitcher in the late 50s and 60s and played in the minor categories in the San Francisco Giants organization. organized baseball in the United States.
The former baseball player was part of the National team that represented the Dominican Republic in the 1962 Central American and Caribbean Games held in Kingston, Jamaica and where the Creole team won its first gold medal, being Pedro Reynoso, La Carpia the pitcher. winner of the fourth and decisive game against Cuba’s blunderbuss, three runs to two, the powerful left-handed pitcher demonstrating his consistency by throwing the complete game.
The great left-handed pitcher Pedro Reynoso, known as La Carpia, played for several years with the Leones del Escogido where he showed his quality, but in a friendly game between the Leones de Caracas and his Leones del Escogido teams, he received a line drive hit by the star Pete Rose that it pretty much got him out of organized baseball.
Professor William Hernández, president of the Duarte Province Sports Union, mourned the death of Mr. Reynoso and deplored the fact that his last days were spent in great poverty in his community of Monte Negro, San Francisco de Macorís.