Luis Bustamante (baseball)

Luis Bustamante
Luis Bustamante
	Shortstop
	Born: 1880; San Juan y Martínez, Cuba, Cuba
Batted: Right	Threw: Right
Cuban League debut
	1902, for the Almendares
Last appearance
	1911, for the Fe club
Teams
	Almendares (1902–1903, 1905); Azul (1904); Carmelita (1904); Nuevo Criollo (1904); Club Fé (1904, 1910–1911); Habana (1906–1911); Cuban X-Giants (1904, 1906); All Cubans (1905);
Career highlights and awards
	Member of the Cuban Baseball Hall of Fame;

Luis "The Eel" Bustamante Anguilla (born 1880 – death date unknown) was a Cuban baseball shortstop in the Cuban League and Negro leagues. He played from 1901 to 1913 with several ballclubs. He was elected to the Cuban Baseball Hall of Fame in 1939.[1]

Bustamante played in the Negro leagues from 1904 to 1913, spending 1904 and 1906 with the Cuban X-Giants, 1905 and 1911 with the All Cubans, 1907 with the Brooklyn Royal Giants, and 1906 through 1913 with the Cuban Stars (West).[2]

References

Riley, James A. (1994). The Biographical Encyclopedia of the Negro Baseball Leagues. New York: Carroll & Graf. ISBN 0-7867-0959-6.
"Luis Bustamante". seamheads.com. Retrieved October 12, 2020.

Negro league and Cuban League statistics and player information from Seamheads.com, or Baseball-Reference (Negro leagues)

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