Art López

Puerto Rican baseball player (born 1937)

Baseball player

Art López
Outfielder
Born: (1937-05-08) May 8, 1937 (age 87) Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
Batted: Left Threw: Left
Professional debut
MLB: April 12, 1965, for the New York Yankees
NPB: April 6, 1968, for the Tokyo Orions
Last appearance
MLB: September 29, 1965, for the New York Yankees
NPB: October 22, 1973, for the Yakult Atoms
MLB statistics
Batting average	.143
Home runs	0
Runs batted in	0

Teams
New York Yankees (1965) Tokyo Orions (1968) Lotte Orions (1969–1971) Yakult Atoms (1972–1973)

Arturo López Rodríguez (born May 8, 1937) is a former professional baseball player. He played one season in Major League Baseball as an outfielder for the New York Yankees in 1965. He also played in Nippon Professional Baseball from 1968 until 1973, becoming the first Puerto Rican to do so.^[1]

During his lone major league season, López played in 38 games in his one-year career. Lopez had seven hits in 49 at-bats, a .143 batting average. His greater success came in Japan's NPB, where he played for six seasons. In those seasons he batted .290 with 116 home runs. He was an All-Star in 1968, and played in the Japan Series in 1970 for the Lotte Orions.^[2]

References

^ Cromwell, Carter (7 February 2023). "The "Wrong" López: How Arturo López Became NPB's first Puerto Rican Player". JapanBall. Retrieved 23 June 2023.
^ NPB foreign batting stats, K-L