Agustin Peris

Agustin Peris de Vargas (1880 – 27 August 1949) was a Spanish sports journalist and pioneer of baseball and football in Catalonia, who held managerial positions in the respective federations as a founder and the first president of the Catalan Baseball Federation (1929–1939) and the treasurer of the Catalan Football Federation.

Agustin Peris
Agustin Peris
President of Català SC
In office
1910 – late 1920s
1st President of Catalan Baseball Federation
In office
1929–1939
Succeeded byLluís María Jordà
Association football career
Full name Agustin Peris de Vargas
Birth name Agustí Peris de Vargas
Date of birth 1880
Place of birth Manzanillo, Cuba
Date of death 17 August 1949 (aged 69)
Place of death Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Position(s) Midfielder
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1906–1907 FC Barcelona 1 (0)
1909–1911 Català FC +5 (0)
1909 FC Barcelona 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

He played both sports in his youth, participating in the very first documented baseball match held in Spain in 1901 and playing as a midfielder for FC Internacional and Sport Club Català before becoming the president of the latter. Apart from playing football and baseball, a sport he practiced until he was over fifty years old, he was also a swimmer and an athlete and worked as a journalist in several publications of his time, including the Spanish newspaper Mundo Deportivo, in which he signed the chronicles under the pseudonym "Strike".

His brothers Joaquim, Lisandro, and Enrique were also outstanding sportsmen and leaders.

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