Martin Dihigo: El Inmortal

In today's modern era of the game, the baseball universe has been rightfully amazed by the versatile brilliance of Japanese phenom Shohei Ohtani. However many decades ago, there was a ballplayer that was even more versatile, doing things the great Ohtani could only dream of accomplishing. This week I dive into the shrouded mystery that is Martin Dihigo. The most decorated baseball player to ever play the game, as he is housed in FOUR Baseball Hall Of Fames around the world. He played all nine positions on the field at a high level. In 1938, he out-duels Negro League legend Satchel Paige, for the Mexican League Pennant, and hits the game-winning walk-off dong. He finishes that year with a 18-2 record with a .92 ERA and wins the batting title with a .387 batting average... at all NINE positions. He is the greatest Cuban player to ever live, and arguably the greatest player ever, even though segregation would victimize him probably worse than any other player of his era. To this day his greatness has been lost in the shadows of many of his own Negro League contemporaries due to awful stat keeping and the Cuban Socialist Revolution. #MartinDihigo #ElInmortal #TheMaestro #SatchelPaige #SchoolboyTaylor #WillieWells #OscarCharleston #JohnHenryLloyd #NYCubanGiants #FidelCastro #CubanRevolution