Miguel Gaspar

{{short description|Mexican baseball player and manager}}

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|name = Miguel Gaspar

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|position = Catcher

|birth_date = {{birth date|1929|9|7|df=yes}}

|birth_place = Empalme, Sonora, Mexico

|death_date = {{death date and age|2012|7|22|1929|9|7|df=yes}}

|death_place = Mexico

|bats = Right

|throws = Right

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|hofcolor = green

|hoflink = Mexican Professional Baseball Hall of Fame

|hoftype = Mexican Professional

|hofdate = 1994

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Miguel Gaspar (19 September 1929 – 22 July 2012) was a Mexican professional baseball catcher and manager in the Mexican League, the highest level of professional baseball in Mexico.

Born in Empalme, Sonora, Gaspar also played in American minor leagues from 1950 to 1958. He hit four home runs in a Rio Grande Valley League game while playing with the Laredo Apaches in 1950.{{cite news|url=https://momentodeportivord.com/miguel-gaspar-pilo-bateo-cuatro-jonrones-en-un-juego/|title=Miguel Gaspar (Pilo) bateó cuatro jonrones en un juego|work=Momento Deportivo RD|first=Alfonso|last=Araujo Bojórquez|date=26 December 2020|access-date=29 May 2023|language=es}} All told, he played professionally from 1950 to 1974 and he managed in 1959, from 1975 to 1977, in 1979, from 1985 to 1986, in 1988 and in 1993.[https://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=gaspar001mig BR Minors] He was elected to the Mexican Professional Baseball Hall of Fame in 1994.[http://www.salondelafama.com.mx/salondelafama/trono/alfasf.asp?x=109 HoF Website] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120208152036/http://www.salondelafama.com.mx/salondelafama/trono/alfasf.asp?x=109 |date=2012-02-08 }}

In 2020, Gaspar was selected as the starting catcher on the Mexican League Historic Ideal Team by a committee of baseball journalists and historians.{{cite news|url=https://www.mlb.com/es/news/lmb-presento-su-novena-ideal-historica|title=La LMB dio a conocer su Novena Ideal Histórica|publisher=Major League Baseball|date=28 June 2020|access-date=29 May 2023|language=es|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200901025904/https://www.mlb.com/es/news/lmb-presento-su-novena-ideal-historica|archive-date=1 September 2020|url-status=live}}

His nickname was Pilo.