Ivan Calderon (baseball player)

Ivan Perez Calderon (March 19, 1962 - December 27, 2003), better known as Ivan Calderon, was a baseball player from Puerto Rico. A native of Fajardo, he was nicknamed Ivan the Terrible.

Calderon played his first major league baseball game on August 10, 1984, with the Seattle Mariners. He hit one home run in only eleven games that year. He was traded to the Chicago White Sox in 1986. He had arguably his best season in 1987, hitting 28 home runs, batting for an average of .293 and bringing in 85 players home (RBI). Over the next years, his power declined, but he was still able to achieve decent power hitting numbers. He was traded in 1991 to the Montreal Expos, hitting 19 home runs that season, but his home run numbers declined considerably after that.

After short stints with the Boston Red Sox and again with the White Sox, he retired in 1993.

On December 27, 2003, Ivan Calderon entered a store in Loiza, where he was mysteriously shot five to seven times in his head by strangers, dying instantly. Puerto Rican police suspects the mafia to be involved in the murder.