Felipe Montemayor

{{Short description|Mexican baseball player (1928–2025)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}

{{Infobox baseball biography

| name = Felipe Montemayor

| image = Felipe Montemayor 1949.jpg

| width = 175px

| caption = Montemayor in 1949

| position = Outfielder

| birth_date = {{birth date|1928|2|7}}

| birth_place = Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico

| death_date = {{death date and age|2025|2|4|1928|2|7}}

| death_place =

| bats = Left

| throws = Left

| debutleague = MLB

| debutdate = April 14

| debutyear = 1953

| debutteam = Pittsburgh Pirates

| finalleague = MLB

| finaldate = June 12

| finalyear = 1955

| finalteam = Pittsburgh Pirates

| statleague = MLB

| stat1label = Batting average

| stat1value = .173

| stat2label = Home runs

| stat2value = 2

| stat3label = Runs batted in

| stat3value = 8

| teams =

• Pittsburgh Pirates ({{mlby|1953}}, {{mlby|1955}})

| highlights =

• Mexican League Rookie of the Year (1948)

| hofcolor = green

| hoflink = Mexican Professional Baseball Hall of Fame

| hoftype = Mexican Professional

| hofdate = 1983

| hofvote =

| hofmethod =

}}

Felipe Ángel Montemayor (February 7, 1928 – February 4, 2025) was a Mexican professional baseball player. The outfielder played in 64 games for the Pittsburgh Pirates of Major League Baseball during {{mlby|1953}} and {{mlby|1955}} and all or parts of 14 years in his native country. Born in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico, and nicknamed "Clipper", he threw and batted left-handed; he was listed as {{convert|6|ft|2|in}} tall and {{convert|185|lb}}.

Counting his service in the U.S. minor leagues, Montemayor played 21 seasons of professional baseball. His MLB career consisted of 28- (1953) and 36- (1955) game stints for the Pirates. Montemayor made his major league debut on April 14, 1953, and hit a fly-ball out against Joe Black of the Brooklyn Dodgers. His only two career home runs came in both games of a doubleheader against the St. Louis Cardinals on May 1, 1955.{{cite web|title=Charlton's Baseball Chronology |url=http://www.baseballlibrary.com/chronology/thisday.php?month=5&day=1 |work=www.baseballlibrary.com |access-date=4 April 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130728163635/http://www.baseballlibrary.com/chronology/thisday.php?month=5&day=1 |archive-date=28 July 2013 }} The blows—each with one runner on base—were struck off Floyd Wooldridge (Game 1) and Gordon Jones (Game 2). During his MLB career Montemayor batted .173, with 26 hits; five doubles and three triples accompanied his two homers.[https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/M/Pmontf101.htm Information] at Retrosheet

He played the 1952–53 Cuban League season with Cienfuegos, leading the league in triples, with five and hit two grand-slam home runs in consecutive games on December 28 and 30, 1952.{{cite book|last=Figueredo|first=Jorge S.|date=1 August 2015|title=Who's Who in Cuban Baseball, 1878-1961|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=adcGyT0rHuQC|publisher=McFarland & Company|page=397|isbn=978-0786482641}}

Montemayor died on February 4, 2025, at the age of 96.{{cite web|first=Tomás|last=López|title=Muere Felipe 'El Clipper' Montemayor, leyenda de Sultanes de Monterrey|url=https://www.milenio.com/deportes/beisbol/muere-felipe-el-clipper-montemayor-leyenda-del-beisbol-regiomontano|website=Milenio|date=4 February 2025|access-date=5 February 2025|language=es}}{{cite web|title=Sultanes: En memoria de Felipe "Clipper" Montemayor|url=https://www.milb.com/mexican/news/sultanes-en-memoria-de-felipe-clipper-montemayor|website=MiLB.com|date=4 February 2025|access-date=5 February 2025|language=es}}