Luis Rodriguez-Mayoral

In his 45 years in baseball, Luis Mayoral has been a Major League Baseball scout, General Manager for two Puerto Rican baseball clubs, and also served as a senior executive for two Major League teams, pushing to expand Spanish-language baseball broadcasting and outreach to U.S. Latinos and Latin America. He served as chief baseball correspondent for El Vocero of Puerto Rico for nearly twenty years and has received numerous distinguished honors and awards.

Luis Mayoral is the author of five baseball books, and spent nine years as a Texas Ranger and Detroit Tigers official. He coordinated MLB's Latin American Baseball Players' days for 25 years. A veteran of over 2,000 MLB radio broadcasts, he currently does guest commentary for radio in Puerto Rico. He was on the Speakers Bureau for the Texas Rangers for 9 years and has continued speaking for various orginizations and schools, including guest speaker at Harvard University in 1992 and Stockton College in 2011. In 2003 and 2005, he was honored in the Congressional Record, initiated by Congressman Jose E. Serrano. Luis was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico.