{"id":14581,"date":"2025-07-03T21:55:29","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T01:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/bartolo-colon-to-the-latin-baseball-hall-of-fame-dominican-legend-immortalized\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T21:55:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T01:55:29","slug":"bartolo-colon-to-the-latin-baseball-hall-of-fame-dominican-legend-immortalized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/bartolo-colon-to-the-latin-baseball-hall-of-fame-dominican-legend-immortalized\/","title":{"rendered":"Bartolo Col\u00f3n to the Latin Baseball Hall of Fame: Dominican Legend Immortalized"},"content":{"rendered":"SANTO DOMINGO \u2013 Dominican iconic pitcher Bartolo Col\u00f3n will be immortalized in the twelfth class of the Latin Baseball Hall of Fame, a deserved recognition of his outstanding professional career.\n\nThe exaltation ceremony, where &#8220;Big Sexy&#8221; will be honored alongside compatriots Julio C\u00e9sar Franco and Miguel Tejada, will be held at the end of this year in Punta Cana, as announced by the Hall of Fame organization this Thursday.\n\nThe selection of the new members was made by a panel of voting journalists, who valued the impact of these figures on Latin American baseball.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Bartolo Col\u00f3n pitched for 21 seasons in the Major Leagues, accumulating 247 victories, the most for a Latin pitcher in Major League history.<\/p><cite>Latin Baseball Hall of Fame<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nIn 2005, Col\u00f3n was awarded the prestigious American League Cy Young Award, after recording a 21-8 record with a 3.48 ERA playing for the Anaheim Angels.\n\nDuring his extensive MLB career, Col\u00f3n played for 11 teams, including the Cleveland Guardians (formerly Indians), New York Yankees and Mets, Montreal Expos, Texas Rangers, Boston Red Sox, Chicago White Sox, and Minnesota Twins.\n\nIn addition to his time in the Major Leagues, Bartolo also left his mark in the Dominican Baseball League (LIDOM) with the \u00c1guilas Cibae\u00f1as, participated in the Caribbean Series, and had a presence in the Mexican Baseball League, solidifying an exemplary career.\n\nThe exaltation of Col\u00f3n to the Latin Baseball Hall of Fame is a new recognition for one of the most beloved and charismatic athletes in Dominican baseball.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SANTO DOMINGO \u2013 Dominican iconic pitcher Bartolo Col\u00f3n will be immortalized in the twelfth class of the Latin Baseball Hall of Fame, a deserved recognition of his outstanding professional career. The exaltation ceremony, where &#8220;Big Sexy&#8221; will be honored alongside compatriots Julio C\u00e9sar Franco and Miguel Tejada, will be held at the end of this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[5306,88,1271,477],"class_list":{"0":"post-14581","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-bartolo-colon","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-dominican-republic","11":"tag-hall-of-fame"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}