He was also a physical education, basketball and tennis instructor at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez for nearly thirty years.
Fufi Santori, his brother Tito and the rest of his family moved to San Juan at an early age.
Santori made his debut in the Baloncesto Superior Nacional (BSN) in 1951 with the Cangrejeros de Santurce.
He was one of the players that helped Arecibo to become the only team to go undefeated the entire season when the Capitanes won the 1959 BSN national title.
Santori was later chosen as the 30th best player in Puerto Rican basketball history by a BSN voting panel.
Behind the litigation over Santori's nationality status lie some anomalies and peculiarities relating to matters of status in Puerto Rico: Under the Treaty of Paris under which the United States acquired sovereignty over Puerto Rico, Spanish nationals had a right of option.
United States nationality (citizenship) is acquired by persons born in Puerto Rico by that Treaty and under statute, and not under the 14th Amendment (8 U.S.C.