When Okaury Montero packed in 2007 to leave her home and move to Navarra, his mother persuaded him: “Son, forget. There is no baseball culture here. Football is his passion. ”So that adolescent baseball fan of the Dominican Republic did not include his sports material in the move (uniform, bat, ball, gloves) and reaped in Pamplona with the idea that he would limit himself to playing basketball and is already Train baseball. I was surprised, ”recalls Okaury, who in the baseball world has earned a powerful nickname: Majesty.
The current Pamplona Bull player, a club that competes in the highest category of Spanish baseball, the National Baseball League Division of Honor Gold (LNBDH Gold), opened at the end of the last decade a fabulous sports journey in the youth category of the Arga Sports Club, then passed to Navarra baseball, played in the Pamplona CD and even militated in the Zaragozano team of Miraralbueno. At 34, Majesty acts as a captain in the CBS Toroswhere he is respected by his companions, mostly younger than him. “It’s like an artistic nickname that fits with my personality. It comes from Majesty, but not in the sense that I am above others,” he warns.
Asked about the level of baseball in Europe in front of a practice that sweeps, among other places, in the Hispanic Caribbean, defends the quality of the league in which it competes (“he who says he has no quality is because he does not know it”) and launches several messages that affect the health status of the club. The Dominican player regrets that, More than five years after its foundation, they still do not have a baseball field “in conditions”, So the club’s hitters are forced to rent the sports facilities of other teams to train and play their matches.
The Porsche Chapist
Of workshop in workshop. He arrived in Pamplona, studied a welding FP and immediately started working in car workshops. Okaury has never lacked work. From “Five years” he is a luxury German brand chapista.
Pamplona, final destination. Here he has formed his own family (he has two children, 1 and 4 years old), there are his friends, his life… “I have never thought about changing the city. Pamplona is quite cozy and I feel good here,” he says.
Hymn against adversity
The precarious situation of one of the Navarro softball and baseball struts (together with the Navarra baseball and the Irabia sports club, all of them in the Honor Division) He has led him to compose a hip hop song entitled against wind and tide, a anthem of denunciation but, above all, of resistance to adversities. The lyrics say: “We start battling, / rowing against wind and tide, / smiling although things were ugly. / Now it is the turn of those who beat up”. Allied with another batter and local rapper, Iñaki Modrego (Mc Ikañi), the theme addresses the obstacles and vicissitudes for which the club has gone through in its short history. “Everything we have happened has not been easy, but here we are; we have a good quarry of kids and in almost all categories a team has already been formed,” Okaury comments. Recorded, mixed and mastered by Madrid César López Diaz, artistically known as Xces, the song came to light on April 15 and has a video clip made by David Irisarri.
In November 2024, Irisarri and Mc Ikañi presented a documentary entitled behind the seams, in which the stony path was collected, full of potholes, which has had to travel the CBS Toros de Pamplona team from its turbulent beginnings (“problems of all kinds, joys and sorrows”) until it reaches the current moment. The song reinforces the combative look on this same matter, starring this time by the Dominican player who carries the number 24 and they call Majestad: “When Majesty beats, nobody blinks, / and [el público] Korea: ‘That bull like bats. “
