Post-playing Career
After retiring as a player, Marrero became a coach for the Havana Sugar Kings. After the Cuban Revolution, Marrero was one of the most prominent players to remain in Cuba under Fidel Castro, thereby providing a link between the old professional Cuban League and the new amateur Cuban national baseball system and its Cuban National Series. He was a pitching coach for several years for the Havana Industriales and was also a roving pitching instructor. He is a respected figure in Cuba; his portrait is shown on a mural at Estadio Latinoamericano, and he threw out the first pitch at the 1984 baseball World Championship.
In 2006, Marrero was featured along with his Almendares teammate, Hall of Famer Monte Irvin, in a documentary about Cuban baseball, "The Bases Are Loaded." He does not draw a major league pension and is reported to be living modestly in a room in a relative's Havana apartment. As recently as early 2007 a baseball tour of Cuba advertised that participants would have an opportunity to visit with the 95-year old Marrero.
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