[1] At age 17, Pérez debuted professionally in 1931 in the newly created Liga Nacional de Béisbol, which had stabilized the first national championship of first division in Venezuela since its inauguration in 1930.

Venezuela closed the tournament with a 4–1 victory over Cuba, a disappointing final for 30,000 people gathered at La Tropical Stadium in Havana.

This was the first Venezuelan baseball team to win an international tournament,[3][4] where Pérez drove in five runs and scored 11 times, while hitting a .275 batting average in the nine contests.

Opened in 1969, the stadium holds 12,650 people and serves as the home of the Tigres de Aragua club of the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League.

[5] Besides, José Pérez Colmenares and his teammates on the 1941 World Cup champion team were enshrined as a unit in the Venezuelan Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in 2006.