Coco Ferrer
Puerto Rican baseball player

Coco Ferrer

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Puerto Rican baseball player
Gender:
Male
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Birth:
1916
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Biography

Efigenio Ferrer Cabrera (January 1, 1915 – August 17, 1963), nicknamed "Coco" and "Al", was a Puerto Rican Negro League shortstop who played in the 1940s.

A native of Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico, Ferrer played for the Puerto Rico national baseball team in the 1938 Central American and Caribbean Games. He made his Negro Leagues debut in 1946 with the Indianapolis Clowns, and played three seasons for Indianapolis before going on to play for the Chicago American Giants in 1951. Ferrer died in Ponce, Puerto Rico in 1963 at age 48.