Luis Romero Petit

Luis Romero Petit (April 11, 1917 – June 29, 2017) was a Venezuelan professional baseball player.

[1] During the 1941 season, Petit was scouted and selected for the Venezuelan team that eventually won the Baseball World Cup held in Havana, Cuba, by defeating the highly favored Cuban squad in a tie-breaker game while placing Venezuela for the very first time among the world baseball elite.

Afterwards, Romero became one of the 77 original founding players of the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League in 1946.

[1] Overall, Romero posted a career batting average of .234 in 366 games, scoring 181 runs and driving in 72 more while stealing 39 bases.

As the time of his death, he was recognized as the oldest living former player of the legendary 1941 team.