Manolo Hernández Douen habla de San Francisco de la posibilidad de ir a...

Manolo Hernández Douen, periodista venezolano, con más 39 años de experiencia cubriendo las Grandes Ligas y varios deportes olímpicos. Hernández es miembro honorario de la Asociación de Escritores de las Grandes Ligas, y es muy respetado por los periodistas que cubren las Mayores y los peloteros por su extenso conocimiento sobre la historia de la pelota profesional de Venezuela. Manolo habla sobre los Gigantes y la excelente posibilidad de que la novena pueda conquistar la División del Oeste, el campeonato de la Liga Nacional y la Serie Mundial.

MANOLO HERNÁNDEZ DOUEN Manolo Hernández Douen has over 39 years of experience in journalism, and has covered a variety of sports during that span. A graduate from Universidad Católica Andrés Bello in his native Caracas, Hernández Douen has covered the Olympic and Panamerican Games, world championship boxing matches and winter league baseball, including the Caribbean Series. He was Venezuela’s Sportswriter of the Year in 1979 and for five seasons was the basketball radio analyst for the Caracas Liga Especial de Baloncesto team. Since moving to California in 1982, he has covered the NBA and Major League Baseball for several of the highest circulation Spanish newspapers in the United States including La Opinión in Los Angeles.

Most recently, he was the Sports Editor for El Nuevo Herald in Miami from 2000 to 2007, and since the 2008 season, he has covered feature stories as a free lance writer for several media outlets including lasmayores.com (MLB in Spanish) and his own www.beisbolporgotas.com As a broadcaster, he was the full time color analyst and part time play-by-play announcer for 300 Oakland Athletics games alongside Amaury Pi-González in the 2009 and 2010 seasons. A proud father of two, Franklin and Cristina, and Kayla’s grandfather, Manolo resides in San Francisco.