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Jaime Mariné

Jaime Mariné y Montes was a Cuban baseball administrator and soldier. He is best known as the second president of the International Baseball Federation (IBF) from 1940 to 1943.[2] Mariné, nicknamed "El Catalancito,"[3] was also a close associate of Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista.[4]

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

Jaime Mariné

Baseball administrator

Early life[edit]

Mariné was born in Catalonia, Spain. He reportedly arrived in Cuba taking care of a gift horse from Spanish King Alfonso XIII to Cuban President Mario García Menocal. He took up residence in Havana and enlisted in the Cuban Army, where he first met Fulgencio Batista.[5]

(1999). The Pride of Havana: A History of Cuban Baseball. Oxford University Press.

Echevarria, Roberto González