José Armando Castillo

José Armando Cipriano Castillo, known as El Mago, the magician, was born on 2 April 1950 in Villa González in the Dominican Republic and is a retired baseball and fastpitch softball pitcher of the Dominican Republic national team. He has won several gold medals in softball at various Central American and Caribbean Games and has served as a national softball trainer. He was selected as the Softball Player of the Century in the Dominican Republic and was added to the Corridor of Athletes of Merit of Santiago by the Sports Press Association of Santiago de los Caballeros. In 2016 he was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the Sports of Santiago.