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Manuel Rivero
Cuban baseball and football player and coach From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Manuel Rivero (November 3, 1908 – August 23, 2001), nicknamed "The Golden Flash", was an American football, basketball, and baseball player and coach.
A native of Havana, Cuba, Rivero was a three-year football lettermen at Columbia University from 1930 to 1932.[1][2][3] Between 1930 and 1934, he played professional baseball in the Negro leagues for the Cuban Stars (East) and Pollock's Cuban Stars.[4][5][6] Rivero went on to hold a variety of coaching positions at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania from 1933 to 1977.[7] The school's home gymnasium, Manuel Rivero Hall, is named in his honor.[8] Rivero died in Rising Sun, Maryland in 2001 at age 92.[9]
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