Chicho Jesurun
Baseball Player
1947 – 2006
Who was Chicho Jesurun?
Arthur Benjamin Jesurun was a Netherlands-Antillian baseball player and coach who reached worldwide fame.
During his playing career he played for several teams. He started in Curaçao with the Korporaal Cardinals, later, in the 1960s he was one of the founders and players of the Caribe from Groningen in the Netherlands. In that period he also started his coaching career as a coach at the Rayon Het Noorden team.
In the 1970s and 80s he was working as a baseball coach in his native Curaçao with the Wildcats Felipe II and the Curaçao national baseball team. With this team he reached the second spot in the national league, before winning the league in three consecutive years. Later he also became a referee in the sport. He also featured as a scout for several Major League Baseball teams like the Atlanta Braves and the Florida Marlins.
During his time at the Braves he brought fellow Antillean Andruw Jones to the team. He also worked for Venezuelan professional team Los Tiburones de la Guairia, where he managed to become "assistant to the owner". Other teams he managed were the Amsterdam Pirates and Almere '90.
He also worked in other functions at Dutch clubs Pioniers and SV ADO.
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- Born
- Jul 10, 1947
Curaçao - Nationality
- Netherlands
- Profession
- Lived in
- Curaçao
- Died
- Dec 16, 2006
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on July 23, 2013
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