That’s what my grandfather would say whenever a sporting event or story needed clarification or explanation. “Let’s see what Fausto has to say.”
Fausto Miranda, legendary Cuban Sportswriter has died. From El Nuevo Herald:
Fausto Miranda, legendary Cuban sportswriter and El Nuevo Herald veteran, dies
By WILFREDO CANCIO ISLA
El Nuevo HeraldFausto Miranda, a legend among Cuban sportwriters and one of the founders of El Nuevo Herald, died late Tuesday. He was 91.
Miranda chronicled the exploits of the likes of boxers Kid Chocolate and Joe Louis, baseball legends Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, and a plethora of Cuban and U.S. athletes.
”Fausto Miranda was one of the great sportswriters of Cuba and Latin America,” said
Roberto Gonzalez Echeverria, a Yale University professor and author of ”The Pride of Havana,” a chronicle of Cuban baseball history. “He was a journalist who wrote with vigor, grace and agility.”
For 21 years, Miranda was sports editor of El Nuevo Herald, a newspaper he helped launch in March 1976.
He was the author of a popular weekly column in which he reminisced about life in his native Cuba, ”the most beautiful land human eyes ever beheld,” as he wrote in his column for Feb. 1, 2003.
Miranda was born July 4, 1914, in Puerto Padre, in the region of the former Oriente province now known as Las Tunas province.
Through the years, he worked for the newspapers Información, El Crisol, Diario de la Marina, and Alerta, where he served as sports editor for 11 years. He also was a sports commentator on radio station COCO.
When Fidel Castro came to power in 1959, Miranda was president of the Sports Writers Association. Castro dissolved the association in 1960 and Miranda left Cuba.
He lived in New York and moved to Miami in 1975. The following year, he founded the sports section of El Miami Herald, predecessor of El Nuevo Herald.
At El Nuevo Herald, he edited the sports section, wrote spot news and published a regular column, ”Stardust,” in which he featured current sports stars. He retired in 1995 but continued to publish a popular weekly column.
Miranda is survived by daughters Isabel Fernandez and Vilma Quintana and two grandchildren. His wife of 51 years, Hilda del Pozo, passed away in 2002.
Rest in peace, Sr. Miranda. I know there will be an increase in beisbol talk up in heaven from now on.
I had the privilege of working for a few years with Fausto Miranda –like him, I was one of the crew that launched the Herald’s Spanish-language edition in 1976.
What a gentle man. A fountain of knowledge, and warm and generous to a fault. Always elegantly dressed –I don’t think I ever saw him without a jacket and tie.
I shall miss him dearly.
My condolences to the rest of the family.
Julio
Thanks for posting this Val. My mom who listens to local radio told me about Mr. Miranda’s passing this morning. I’m a huge baseball fan and always got a kick out of listening to him describe the game on the radio. He had a style all his own.
Another of the good ones passes on, while that fake “ball player” without real pelotas continues to stink up el Palacio de los Deportes. Rest in peace and joy, Sr. Miranda.
He was one of the reasons I got into sportscasting. R.I.P.