Career
Martinez was elected to the Puerto Rican Sports Hall of Fame in 2009. Ramiro Martinez left Cuba in 1945 and moved to New York, New York, where he began broadcasting Major League Baseball games to a number of Hispanic countries. During this period also, he authored columns for 12 newspaper and 3 magazines.
In 1955, Ramirez established himself in Puerto Rico (some unreferenced sources claim he lived in Spain first).
Martinez had started his professional career in Cuba not as a sportscaster but as an actor. In Puerto Rico, Martinez quickly began working as a sportscaster and reporter.
He began to work there on a radio show that lasted for 50 years. Martinez, who did not openly oppose Fidel Castro, as a reporter was able to interview the Cuban President and El Che Guevara live and in person.
Martinez met Roberto Clemente in 1954, as the future baseball Hall-of-Famer played triple-A baseball.
The two forged a friendship that lasted until Clemente died in a plane crash on December 31, 1972. Both Martinez and Clemente considered each other to be brothers. Martinez later became sportscaster for the Miami Marlins"s radio transmissions.
Ramiro Martinez was also an avid sports memorabilia collector.
His three-floor home in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico held what is considered to be the largest sports memorabilia collection in the tiny country, including 5,000 items related to Clemente. In 1973, Martinez released an album dedicated to Clemente"s memory.
This album was relaunched in 2004 as a compact disc. Martinez also had the largest sports-event-related video collection in Puerto Rico.
Martinez, who had recently undergone surgery to repair an injury caused by a fall, died at 10:00 Department of Administration and Management local time, at his Guaynabo house in Puerto Rico, on July 8, 2015.
Ramiro Junior., Jorge, Fe and Sarah Martinez, who works at Telemundo Puerto Rico.
