Jorge Juan Torres Tur (June 18, 1918 â June 5, 1982), nicknamed Cocoliso, was a Cuban baseball player. He played on the Cuba national baseball team at the 1939 Amateur World Series, and later played in the professional Cuban Winter League as well as several seasons in the minor leagues.
Cocoliso Torres played with the Cubaneleco (Cuban Electric Company) club of the Cuban Amateur League. He was selected to the Cuban squad that won gold at the 1938 Central American and Caribbean Games in Panama City, going 1âÂÂforâÂÂ5. He also appeared with Cuba at the 1939 Amateur World Series, the country's first major international tournament and the first held on home soil. Though he posted a dismal .174 batting average over the course of the series, going 4âÂÂforâÂÂ23, he hit a triple in the ninth inning of the opening match against Nicaragua, eventually scoring the game-winning run; that performance was enough to secure him most valuable player honors.
Torres made his professional baseball debut in the Cuban Winter League with Almendares. By the 1946âÂÂ47 season, he played as an infielder with Habana.
Debuting in organized baseball with the Washington Senators organization in 1940, Torres played in the South Atlantic, Appalachian, and Florida State Leagues that year. He went on to play in the Class-A Eastern League before signing with the New York Giants, playing with Jersey City in the International League. He returned to the Washington organization in 1945, playing with the Chattanooga Lookouts of the Southern Association. He went on to play in the Mexican League with Monterrey and San Luis PotosÃÂ and in 1946 and 1947. Torres returned to organized baseball with the Philadelphia Athletics organization before retiring.