Roberto Méndez

Roberto Méndez
Second baseman / Shortstop
Born: (1947-03-06)6 March 1947
San Blas, Nayarit, Mexico
Died: November 28, 2024(2024-11-28) (aged 77)
Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
Batted: Right
Threw: Right
Member of the Mexican Professional
Baseball Hall of Fame
Induction2000

Roberto Méndez Navarro (March 6, 1947 - November 28, 2024) was a Mexican former professional baseball infielder. He played in the Mexican League, the highest level of professional baseball in Mexico, from 1965 to 1984.[1] He also spent part of 1966 in the Mexican Southeast League. He also managed the Ángeles de Puebla for part of the 1987 season, replacing Rodolfo Sandoval. He was elected to the Mexican Professional Baseball Hall of Fame in 2000.[2]

Méndez also played winter baseball in the Mexican Pacific League for 17 seasons with the Tomateros de Culiacán, Cañeros de Los Mochis, Naranjeros de Hermosillo, Ostioneros de Guaymas and Venados de Mazatlán.[3]

Méndez died on November 28, 2024[4].

References

  1. ↑ BR Minors
  2. ↑ Salon de la Fama
  3. ↑ Gastélum Duarte, Guillermo. Enciclopedia Conmemorativa del 75 Aniversario de la Liga Mexicana del Pacífico (in Spanish). Culiacán, Sinaloa: Moby Dick Editorial. p. 449. Archived from the original on 26 June 2022. Retrieved 13 October 2025.
  4. ↑
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