Agustin Peris | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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President of Català SC | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
In office 1910 – late 1920s | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1st President of Catalan Baseball Federation | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
In office 1929–1939 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Succeeded by | Lluís María Jordà | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Agustin Peris de Vargas (1880 – 27 August 1948) 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.[1][2]
He played both sports in his youth, participating in the very first documented baseball match held in Spain in 1901[1] and playing as a midfielder for FC Internacional and Sport Club Català before becoming the president of the latter.[3] 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".[1]
His brothers Joaquim, Lisandro, and Enrique were also outstanding sportsmen and leaders.[4]