Edmundo "Sandy" Amorós (January 30, 1930 - June 27, 1992) was a Major League Baseball outfielder for the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers and Detroit Tigers. Amorós was born in Havana, Cuba. He batted and thrown lefty.

Amorós had a brief and unremarkable career in the major leagues except for one, defining moment with the Brooklyn Dodgers. It was the seventh inning of Game 7 of the 1955 World Series. The Dodgers had never won a World Series in their history and were now trying to hold a 2-0 lead against their perennial rivals, the New York Yankees. Amorós came in that inning as a defensive replacement. The first two batters in the seventh inning reached base and Yogi Berra came to the plate. Yogi hit a shot into the leftfield corner that looked to be a sure double, as the Brooklyn outfield had just shifted to the right. Amorós came out of nowhere to catch the ball and then threw to second to complete the double play. The Yankees rally was crushed and the Dodgers won the series two innings later. After baseball, Amorós became a prosperous rancher in Cuba, but the coming of Fidel Castro forced him to flee to Miami, Florida, where he lived in poverty until his death.

YEAR TEAM        AGE    G    AB    R    H  2B  3B  HR    HR%  RBI   BB   SO   SB  CS   AVG   SLG   OBA   OPS
1952 Dodgers      22   20    44   10   11   3   1   0   0.00    3    5   14    1   0  .250  .364  .327  .690 
1954 Dodgers      24   79   263   44   72  18   6   9   3.42   34   31   24    1   4  .274  .490  .353  .843 
1955 Dodgers      25  119   388   59   96  16   7  10   2.58   51   55   45   10   5  .247  .402  .347  .749 
1956 Dodgers      26  114   292   53   76  11   8  16   5.48   58   59   51    3   4  .260  .517  .385  .902 
1957 Dodgers      27  106   238   40   66   7   1   7   2.94   26   46   42    3   2  .277  .403  .399  .803 
1959 Dodgers      29    5     5    1    1   0   0   0   0.00    1    0    1    0   0  .200  .200  .200  .400 
1960 Dodgers      30    9    14    1    2   0   0   0   0.00    0    3    2    0   0  .143  .143  .294  .437 
     Tigers       30   65    67    7   10   0   0   1   1.49    7   12   10    0   0  .149  .194  .275  .469 
     TOTALS            74    81    8   12   0   0   1   1.23    7   15   12    0   0  .148  .185  .278  .464 
     TOTALS           517  1311  215  334  55  23  43   3.28  180  211  189   18  15  .255  .430  .361  .791 
     LG AVERAGE            1331  179  356  56  12  40   2.99  168  136  160   13   9  .267  .417  .336  .753 
     POS AVERAGE           1322  178  349  54  13  46   3.49  183  129  176   11   9  .264  .430  .331  .761 

YEAR TEAM           RC RCAA RCAP   OWP   RC/G   TB  EBH   ISO   SEC   BPA IBB HBP SAC  SF GIDP OUTS    PA POS
1952 Dodgers         6    0    0  .502   4.76   16    4  .114  .250  .449   0   0   1   0   0    34    50  RF
1954 Dodgers        44    5    2  .552   5.88  129   33  .217  .323  .522   0   1   3   0   4   202   298  LF
1955 Dodgers        56   -2    2  .476   4.86  156   33  .155  .309  .472   5   6   2   4   8   311   455  LF
1956 Dodgers        60   18   17  .658   6.95  151   35  .257  .455  .584   6   1   8   1   4   233   361  LF
1957 Dodgers        40    1   -3  .512   5.84   96   15  .126  .324  .486   3   3   4   1   6   185   292  LF
1959 Dodgers         0   -1       .000   0.00    1    0  .000  .000  .200   0   0   0   0   0     4     5  
1960 Dodgers         1   -1   -1  .167   2.25    2    0  .000  .214  .294   1   0   0   0   0    12    17  RF
     Tigers          4   -6   -7  .145   1.83   13    1  .045  .224  .300   1   0   0   1   1    59    80  CF
     TOTALS          5   -7   -8  .149   1.90   15    1  .037  .222  .299   2   0   0   1   1    71    97 
     TOTALS        211   14   10  .527   5.48  564  121  .175  .339  .497  16  11  18   7  23  1040  1558 
     LG AVERAGE    188    0    0  .500   4.88  555  108  .150  .256  .452  11   7  14  11  31  1040  1500 
     POS AVERAGE   186   -1    0  .492   4.85  568  113  .165  .265  .459  10   8  11  11  32  1036  1482 

SANDY AMOROS LEAGUE LEADERSHIP RANKINGS

1955 NL STOLEN BASES 9TH 10; HIT BY PITCHES T4TH 6

1956 NL TRIPLES T8TH 8

External links

• Career statistics at Baseball-Reference.com