The sport saw many of its figures leave

The sport has lost billions of dollars in suspended events, advertising withdrawals, partial and total industry shutdowns due to the COVID-19 pandemic; economists expect a future recovery in several decades; but the lost human lives could never be recovered, which only leave a great legacy for memories in different areas.

Dominican sport does not escape this reality and at the end of 2021 the lethal balance has reached many of its most beloved and emblematic figures, with an impressive list that includes the deaths of the “Immense” Hugo Cabrera, by far the great Dominican basketball figure since the seventies; the idol of entertainment crowds, the wrestler Jack Veneno; the charismatic and one of the most followed by sports lovers through the media, the communicator Tomás Troncoso Cuesta … And the most respectable voice before the sports microphone, that of the “Magician” of horse racing, Simón Alfonso Pemberton, also this year was turned off.

Pemberton, 86; Cabrera, 67, died in March of cancer, and Veneno, 79, died in April of the same disease.

 

The big captain

The lethal chronology began on January 10 as the death of “The Great Blue Captain,” Pedro González; and on the 21st, Juan Sánchez (Juanchy), chief executive of the Águilas Cibaeñas.

On March 15, Eulogio “Frankie” de la Cruz, pitcher of the Toros del Este, passed away; then on May 9, in New York, former world boxing champion Juan Antonio Guzmán, the second Dominican to win a universal belt, was found dead at his residence.

In June the coach and promoter of the sport, Professor Danilo Aquino, 82 years old; Alejandro Asmar Sánchez (Chito), athlete, president of the Naco club on several occasions; and former Bameso club volleyball player Andrés Alcántara, 57.

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On July 7, Pablo Peguero, former player and advisor of the Eastern Stars, died of a heart attack; while the sports writer Carlos Peña, died on September 3; at age 63.

 

 

 

Lugo and Troncoso

Young ex-baseball player Julio Lugo, 45, and champion with the Boston Red Sox, suddenly succumbed to a heart attack after leaving a gym session on November 15; the charismatic commentator Tomás Troncoso Cuesta died on the 22nd of that month; Eliseo Alba, producer of sports venues and promoter of major local sporting events, also dies the next day. And on the 30th, “The Prince of Christ the King”, the sports leader Alfredo-Cayayo-Tejada died at home.

Entering December, Danilo Basilio, the commercial voice of the Águilas Cibaeñas chain, dies on the 4th; while the former speed champion Máximo (El Pachá) Serraf, dies in Cleveland on December 25 at the age of 76.

 

 

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