The Salon de la Fama del Beisbol Mexicano, Mexico’s Baseball Hall of Fame, announced its 2025 induction class on Thursday.
Being enshrined this year are Enrique Mazon Rubio, the long-time president of the Naranjeros de Hermosillo, and pitchers Jorge de la Rosa and Francisco Campos.
Enrique Mazon Rubio served as president of the Naranjeros de Hermosillo of the Liga ARCO Mexicana del Pacifico for 38 years from 1987 to 2025, during which the club won nine championships and the 2014 Caribbean Series in Margarita, Venezuela, and was a four-time host of the Caribbean Series, most recently in 2013 at Estadio Fernando Valenzuela. In addition to his work with the Naranjeros de Hermosillo and the LAMP, Mazon was instrumental in bringing Major League Baseball games to Mexico.
A native of Monterrey, Mexico, where the Salon de Fama de Beisbol Mexicano is located, Jorge de la Rosa made 450 appearances over 15 seasons in Major League Baseball with the Milwaukee Brewers, Kansas City Royals, Colorado Rockies, Arizona Diamondbacks, and Chicago Cubs, posting a 4.58 ERA with 1,273 strikeouts and a 1.444 WHIP in 1,522 2/3 innings. He mad 13 appearances with the Naranjeros de Hermosillo in the LAMP in 2006-07 and 2007-08, throwing 12 1/3 innings with a 0.00 ERA, striking out 15 of 47 batters he faced.
A native of Guaymas, Sonora, on Mexico’s west coast, Francisco Campos made just seven appearances in affiliated baseball in the United States, but had a long, successful career in Mexico, playing the bulk of his career with the Piratas de Campeche in the Liga Mexicana de Beisbol and playing winter ball with the Naranjeros de Hermosillo, Tomateros de Culiacan, and Venados de Mazatlan. In total, Campos pitched 2,976 1/3 innings in the LMB with Campeche and Monterrey, posting a 3.75 ERA and 2,258 strikeouts. In 10 seasons in the LAMP, he threw 597 2/3 innings with a 4.19 ERA, a 1.198 WHIP, and 438 strikeouts.
Photo: Enrique Mazon Rubio, who served as president of hte Naranjeros de Hermosillo for 38 years, is a member of the Salon de Fama de Beisbol Mexicano’s 2025 class of inductees. (Photo courtesy of the LAMP)
