Ramón Montoya (baseball)

Ramón Montoya
Outfielder / Coach
Born: (1940-12-08)8 December 1940
Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico
Died: 24 January 2018(2018-01-24) (aged 77)
Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico
Teams
Career highlights and awards

Mexican Pacific League records

  • 130 hits, single season
Member of the Mexican Professional
Baseball Hall of Fame
Induction1990

Ramón "Diablo" Montoya Lerma (8 December 1940 – 24 January 2018) was a Mexican professional baseball outfielder and coach. Montoya spent all his career in the Mexican League playing center field for the Diablos Rojos del México. Nicknamed "Diablo" (Devil), Montoya also participated in the Mexican Pacific League and played one season, in 1964, for the El Paso Sun Kings of the Texas League. After retiring, he coached for the Diablos Rojos. Montoya was inducted into the Mexican Professional Baseball Hall of Fame as part of the class of 1990.