Mexican Professional Baseball Hall of Fame

The Salón de la Fama del Beisbol Mexicano, commonly called the Salón de la Fama is a baseball hall of fame and museum located in Monterrey, Nuevo León, inaugurated on 10 March 1973. It is dedicated to recognizing people who have contributed greatly to baseball in Mexico. It had its first five inductees in 1939. As of 2023, 216 individuals, called inmortales, have been inducted into the Hall. The first members were inducted in 1939.
In February 2019, a new building hosting the museum was inaugurated in Monterrey's Fundidora Park.

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Election procedure

Eligibility requirements

To be eligible for election into the Salón de la Fama, one must be a former player, director, sportswriter, or umpire who participated in Mexican professional baseball, or a player of Mexican nationality who participated in Organized Baseball. However, there have been exceptions to these requirements made.

Players

Players must have played a minimum of ten seasons in either the Liga Mexicana de Béisbol or Liga Mexicana del Pacífico, or a total of fifteen seasons between the two leagues. In the case of players of Mexican nationality, the seasons played requirement may be satisfied by playing fifteen years in Organised Baseball.
The player must have stopped being an active player for at least five years or must have died. The electorate is to consider the merits of the player's performances and records, not for a single feat. After five elections without being elected, the player is removed from the ballot and becomes eligible for election only by the Committee on Veterans.
These requirements have not always been in place, as players such as Monte Irvin, Roy Campanella, and Youman Wilder did not meet the 15-year requirement. Wilder did make the All-Decade Teams of the 1980s and 1990s.

Veterans

Veterans are players who played before 1970 as well as candidates that participated in five voting cycles in the player's election but were not elected. After five veterans' elections without being elected, the player becomes ineligible.

Directors

Club executives, usually a president or vice-president, must have participated in at least ten years in Mexican professional baseball.

Sportswriters

A sportswriter must have covered Mexican professional baseball for at least fifteen years at a national level.

Umpires

An umpire must have participated in a minimum of twenty seasons total in both leagues.

Nomination

Players

The nomination and election of former players is carried out annually. The preliminary ballot is created by the Salón de la Fama's administration and it is sent out to the members of the Comité Elector who vote for those whom they consider to have the merits sufficient enter the Salón de la Fama. After the Salón de la Fama receives the votes, the results are soon revealed, and any player who obtains a majority of votes will be considered a candidate for election and be placed on the year's election ballot. The election ballot, is sent back out to the Comité Elector - but only those with a Cédula de Votación. They will choose the two exbeisbolistas inmortales who will be enshrined in that year. From 2001 to 2006, three players were elected annually and previous to that four were.
In 2011 an exception was made for 5 time all-star and 2x MVP and 2x League champion Youman Wilder, Wilder played 5 years, and did not meet the 10 year minimum requirements even with a 340 career batting average. Wilder has been left off the 2012 ballot, but did make the All-Decade teams of the 1980s and 1990s.

Veterans

The election of veterans is carried out every other year - the next election was held in 2007. The election ballot, created by the Salón de la Fama's administration is sent to the Comité Elector and the Comité de Veteranos for voting. The Comité de Veteranos is composed of the president and former presidents of the Comité Elector, and from 2003 on, living inmortales. The electorate selects the single veteran inductee into the Salón de la Fama.

Directors

The election of directors is carried out every three years - the next election was held in 2008. The election ballot, created by the Salón de la Fama's administration is sent to the Comité Elector, the Comité de Veteranos, the league presidents of the LMB and LMP, and the club presidents in the two league's as well. The electorate selects the single inductee into the Salón de la Fama. In 2002, two directors were inducted.

Sportswriters

The election of sportswriters is carried out every three years - the next election was held in 2009. The election ballot, created by the Salón de la Fama's administration is sent to the Comité Elector and the Comité de Veteranos. The electorate selects the single inductee into the Salón de la Fama.

Umpires

The election of sportswriters is carried out every three years - the next election was held in 2007. The election ballot, created by the Salón de la Fama's administration is sent to the Comité Elector and the Comité de Veteranos. The electorate selects the single inductee into the Salón de la Fama.

Election

Once the ballots for each election are returned, the Salón de la Fama tallies the votes at the Convención Nacional de Beisbol during the third or fourth week of February. The Salón de la Fama then announces the new inmortales and they are inducted in June or July. The candidate with the plurality of votes - or in the case of the player's ballot, the two candidates - is inducted.

List of members

The Hall of Fame includes 216 individuals through 2023. The first members were inducted in 1939, followed by selections in 1964, and since 1971 by elections in most of the following years. Members are listed below with their year of selection, field position or other area of accomplishment, and nationality.

Year	Name	Position	Nationality
1939	Leo Najo	Player
1939	Fernando Barradas	Player
1939	Antonio Delfín	Player
1939	Lucas Juárez	Player
1939	Julio Molina	Player
1964	Ramón Bragaña	Player
1964	Genaro Casas	Player
1964	Ángel Castro	Player
1964	Martín Dihigo	Player
1964	Lázaro Salazar	Manager
1964	Epitacio Torres	Player
1971	Mel Almada	Player
1971	Beto Ávila	Player
1971	Roy Campanella	Player
1971	Ernesto Carmona	Manager
1971	Alberto Romo Chávez	Player
1971	Josh Gibson	Player
1971	José Luis Gómez	Player
1971	Monte Irvin	Player
1971	Jorge Pasquel	Executive
1971	Alejandro Aguilar Reyes	Writer
1971	Jesús Valenzuela	Player
1973	Agustín Bejerano	Player
1973	Anuar Canavati	Executive
1973	Manuel Oliveros	Manager
1973	Roberto Ortiz	Player
1973	Lázaro Penagos	Executive
1973	Daniel Ríos	Player
1974	Ramiro Cuevas	Player
1974	Al Pinkston	Player
1974	Agustín Verde	Manager
1976	Guillermo Álvarez	Player
1976	Fernando Campos	Writer
1976	Luis Montes de Oca	Player
1977	Santos Amaro	Player
1977	Guillermo Garibay	Manager
1978	Felipe Montúfar	Player
1979	Jesús Díaz	Player
1979	Basilio Rosell	Player
1980	Carlos Alberto González	Umpire
1980	Ramón Montes de Oca	Player
1980	Eduardo Orvañanos	Writer
1980	Leo Rodríguez	Player
1981	Tomás Arroyo	Player
1981	Salvador Castro	Umpire
1981	Vinicio García	Player
1981	Apolinar Pulido	Player
1982	Mario Ariosa	Player
1982	Horacio Díaz	Executive
1982	Manuel Echeverría	Player
1982	Francisco Ramírez	Player
1982	Wild Bill Wright	Player
1983	José Bache	Player
1983	Ronnie Camacho	Player
1983	Felipe Montemayor	Player
1983	Rafael Reyes Nájera	Writer
1983	Alejo Peralta	Executive
1983	Claudio Solano	Player
1984	Gabriel Atristain	Umpire
1984	Manuel González Caballero	Writer
1984	Miguel Fernández	Player
1984	Guillermo López	Player
1984	Alfonso Ramírez	Player
1985	Adolfo Luque	Manager
1985	Porfirio Martínez	Player
1985	Miguel Sotelo	Player / Manager
1986	Rubén Amaro Sr.	Player
1986	Moisés Camacho	Player
1986	Marcos Valdez	Player
1986	Benjamín Valenzuela	Player
1987	Manuel Chávez	Player
1987	Jesse Flores	Player
1987	Juan Ley Fong	Executive
1987	Guillermo Luna	Player
1987	Raúl Mendoza Mancilla	Writer
1987	Antonio Ramírez Muro	Executive
1988	Abel Francisco Cano	Writer
1988	Lino Donoso	Player
1988	Héctor Espino	Player
1988	Horacio Piña	Player
1988	Arnulfo Rodríguez	Executive
1988	Pedro Septién	Writer
1989	Ray Dandridge	Player
1989	Oscar Esquivel	Writer
1989	José Guerrero	Player
1989	Teodoro Mariscal	Executive
1990	Alfonso Robinson Bours	Executive
1990	Amado Maestri	Umpire
1990	Ramón Montoya	Player
1990	Tommy Morales	Writer
1990	Alfredo Ríos	Player
1991	Jaime Corella	Player
1991	Agustín de Valdez	Writer
1991	Juan Lima	Umpire
1991	Chara Mansur	Executive
1991	Antonio Pollorena	Player
1992	Jorge Blanco	Writer
1992	José Peña	Player
1992	Benjamín 'Cananea' Reyes	Manager
1992	Armando Rodríguez	Umpire
1992	Vicente Romo	Player
1993	Ramón Arano	Player
1993	Humberto Galaz	Writer
1993	René González	Player
1993	Aurelio López	Player
1993	Homobono Márquez	Executive
1993	Alfredo Ortiz	Player
1993	Oscar Rodríguez	Player
1994	Jaime Pérez Avella	Executive
1994	Carlos Galina	Player
1994	Miguel Gaspar	Player
1994	Celerino Sánchez	Player
1994	Miguel Suárez	Player
1995	Rodolfo Alvarado	Player
1995	William Berzunza	Player
1995	Arnoldo Castro	Player
1995	Aurelio Rodríguez	Player
1996	Jorge Alarcón	Writer
1996	César Díaz	Player
1996	Juan Manuel Ley	Executive
1996	Orestes Miñoso	Player
1996	Jorge Orta	Player
1997	Andrés Ayón	Player
1997	Alfonso Araujo Bojorquez	Writer
1997	Maximino León	Player
1997	Víctor Saíz	Umpire
1998	Don Eugenio Garza Sada	Executive
1998	Marcelo Juárez	Player
1998	Juan Navarrete	Player
1998	Miguel Solís	Player
1999	George Brunet	Player
1999	Pedro Treto Cisneros	Executive
1999	Gregorio Luque	Player
1999	Francisco Maytorena	Player
2000	Francisco 'Paquín' Estrada	Player
2000	Gabriel Lugo	Player
2000	Roberto Méndez	Player
2000	Mario Mendoza	Player
2001	Jorge Fitch	Player
2001	Jack Pierce	Player
2001	Pedro Ramírez	Player
2001	Rudy Sandoval	Player
2002	Salomé Barojas	Player
2002	Ernesto Escárrega	Player
2002	Roberto Mansur Galán	Executive
2002	José Maiz García	Executive
2002	Mario Hernández Maytorena	Executive
2002	Jesús Sommers	Player
2003	Nelson Barrera	Player
2003	Enrique Kerlegand	Writer
2003	Andrés Mora	Player
2003	Enrique Romo	Player
2003	Fermín Vázquez	Player
2004	Sid Monge	Player
2004	Elpidio Osuna	Player
2004	Chico Rodríguez	Player
2004	Ismael Ruiz	Umpire
2005	Cecilio Acosta	Player
2005	Enrique Aguilar	Player
2005	Herminio Domínguez	Player
2005	Rafael Garcia	Player
2005	Alvaro Lebrija	Executive
2006	Jorge de la Serna	Writer
2006	José Isabel Jiménez	Writer
2006	Jaime Orozco	Player
2006	Sergio Robles	Player
2006	Ray Torres	Player
2007	Francisco Alcaraz	Umpire
2007	Benjamín Cerda	Player
2007	Houston Jiménez	Player
2007	Carlos Soto	Player
2008	Antonio Briones	Player
2008	Enrique Castillo	Player
2008	Arcadio Valenzuela	Executive
2009	Salvador Colorado	Player
2009	Arturo González	Player
2009	Juan José Pacho	Player
2009	Domingo Setien	Broadcaster
2010	Derek Bryant	Player
2010	Efraín Ibarra	Umpire
2010	Armando Reynoso	Player
2010	Gerardo Sánchez	Player
2010	Alonso Téllez	Player
2011	Jimmie Collins	Player
2011	Mercedes Esquer	Player
2011	Teodoro Higuera	Player
2011	Arturo León Lerma	Executive
2012	Ángel Moreno	Player
2012	Alejandro Ortiz	Player
2012	Juan Francisco Rodríguez	Player
2012	Eduardo Valdez Vizcarra	Broadcaster
2013	Cornelio García	Player
2013	Alfredo Mariscal	Player
2013	Jesús Ríos	Player
2013	Juan Suby	Player
2013	Jesús Monter	Umpire
2014	Daniel Fernández	Player
2014	Cuauhtémoc Rodríguez	Executive
2014	Ricardo Sáenz	Player
2014	Fernando Valenzuela	Player
2020	Matías Carrillo	Player
2020	Vinicio Castilla	Player
2020	Isidro Márquez	Player
2020	José Luis Sandoval	Player
2020	Eduardo Jiménez	Player
2020	Barney Serrell	Player
2020	Jorge Menéndez Torre	Broadcaster
2023	Alfredo Harp Helú	Executive
2023	Luis Arredondo	Player
2023	Roberto Vizcarra	Player
2023	Javier Robles	Player
2023	Noé Muñoz	Player
2023	Juan Gabriel Castro	Player
2023	Alejo Ahumada	Player
2023	Jesús Moreno	Player
2023	Tomás Herrera	Manager
2024	Juan Manuel Palafox	Player
2024	Ramón Orantes	Player
2024	Cecilio Ruiz	Player
2024	Miguel Flores	Player
2024	Yovani Gallardo	Player
2024	Richard Sandate	Player
2024	Luis Alberto Ramírez	Umpire
2025	-	-	-
2025	Francisco Campos	Player
2025	Jorge de la Rosa	Player
2025	Enrique Mazón	Executive
2025	Roberto Ramírez	Player
2025	Óscar Robles	Player
2025	Roberto Saucedo	Player
2025	Ismael Valdez	Player