Portal:Puerto_Rico/Did_you_know_entries/24 References

Sports topics

... that Carlos Beltrán has the smallest ratio of at-bats between homeruns in playoff contention in Mayor League Baseball's history with a total of eleven homeruns in twenty two games and that he holds the record of consecutive playoff games with a homerun with five consecutive games?
... that Wilfredo Gómez won thirty two straight fights by knockout thus making him the World Champion with the longest knockout streak in boxing history?
... that Jesse Vassallo lost the opportunity to defend his world records (200 and 200 meters individual medley) when the United States boycotted the Olympics in Moscow?
... that Juan Evangelista Venegas was the first Puerto Rican to win an Olympic medal?^[1]
... that Ernesto Pastor Lavergne was the first, and so far only, Puerto Rican bullfighter ( torero) to gain international fame?^[2]
... that Juan "Chi Chi" Rodríguez is a professional golfer and the only Puerto Rican to be inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame?^[3]
... that Ángel Cordero, Jr. is one of the leading thoroughbred horse racing jockeys of all time and the only Puerto Rican to be inducted into the United States' Racing Hall of Fame?^[4]