{"id":28802,"date":"2025-08-27T13:17:33","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T17:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/juan-baez-dominican-baseball-and-boxing-legend-passes-away\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T13:17:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T17:17:33","slug":"juan-baez-dominican-baseball-and-boxing-legend-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/juan-baez-dominican-baseball-and-boxing-legend-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Juan B\u00e1ez, Dominican baseball and boxing legend, passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"Santo Domingo. The Dominican sports world mourns the loss of Juan B\u00e1ez, a legendary narrator who left an indelible mark on the country&#8217;s history.\n\nConsidered one of the best boxing and baseball communicators, B\u00e1ez passed away this Wednesday at the age of 82.\n\nThe news was confirmed by his son, Juan Julio B\u00e1ez, also a prominent narrator and member of the Toros del Este broadcast team.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>With deep sorrow, I announce the passing of my father, Juan B\u00e1ez. This morning, he suffered a cardiac arrest at the UCE Medical Center.<\/p><cite>Juan Julio B\u00e1ez<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nBorn in La Romana, Juan B\u00e1ez was the founder of the broadcast chain of the Toros del Este in 1983, the year the franchise debuted in the Dominican Republic Professional Baseball League (LIDOM).\n\nHis passionate style and deep knowledge of the game made him one of the most recognized voices in winter baseball and a respected narrator of international boxing.\n\nB\u00e1ez narrated historic fights of figures like Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, and Joe Frazier, as well as the fight between Miguel Montilla and Antonio Cervantes \u201cKid Pambel\u00e9\u201d at Madison Square Garden in New York.\n\nHe was also one of the first Dominicans accredited as an international boxing judge, taking his talent to countries in America, Europe, Asia, and Africa.\n\nHis career includes his participation in the Spanish-language broadcast of the Boston Red Sox, which added prestige to his career.\n\nIn 2022, Juan B\u00e1ez was inducted into the Romanense Sports Hall of Fame, a well-deserved recognition of his legacy.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santo Domingo. The Dominican sports world mourns the loss of Juan B\u00e1ez, a legendary narrator who left an indelible mark on the country&#8217;s history. Considered one of the best boxing and baseball communicators, B\u00e1ez passed away this Wednesday at the age of 82. The news was confirmed by his son, Juan Julio B\u00e1ez, also a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[88,205,7930,7931],"class_list":{"0":"post-28802","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-boxing","10":"tag-juan-baez","11":"tag-narrator"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28802","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=28802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}