Estadio tetelo vargas baseball pitcher

Dominican baseball player (born 1906)

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Vargas and the second or maternal family name is Marcano.

Baseball player

Juan Esteban Vargas Marcano (April 11, 1906 – December 30, 1971), better known as Tetelo Vargas, and nicknamed "El Gamo Dominicano" or "the Dominican Deer", was a Dominicanprofessional baseballoutfielder, shortstop and first baseman in the Negro leagues.^[2]

Baseball career

An athletic teenager, Vargas spent his early years playing pick-up baseball games, which helped him develop ability and strength.

Williams baseball

By 1927, when Vargas was 21, scouts from the United States and the Dominican Republic had noticed him. Vargas was Black, however, and he became a member of the Negro leagues' famed New York Cubans. Meanwhile, at home, he was signed by the Leones del Escogido, one of the four original Dominican Republic winter baseball league teams that remain in competition.