David Mark "Dave" Winfield (born October 3, 1951) is an American previous Major League Baseball (MLB) right defender. He is at present exceptional aide to the official chief of the Major League Baseball Players Association. Over his 22-year profession, he played for six groups: the San Diego Padres, New York Yankees, California Angels, Toronto Blue Jays, Minnesota Twins, and Cleveland Indians.

Dave Winfield received a second chance and took it fully.

Haunted by the memory of a 22-1 offensive slump in the 1981 World Series with the Yankees (and subsequent characterization of him as "Mr. May" by George Steinbrenner due to its inability to produce in October), Winfield wine to bat in the eleventh inning of the sixth game in the Fall Classic 1992 as a member of the Toronto Blue Jays. With the score tied 2-2 and two outs, Winfield hit a double to left field to give the Blue Jays a lead 4-2 and then win their first World Series.

It was sweet vindication for a man who had won seven Gold Gloves (two with Parents five with the Yankees); it had been an All-Star every year from 1977-1988, started in the All-Star in 1979 and 1981, and in every year from 1983 to 1988 and hit .361 in those twelve games.

Known as "Daddy Longleg" (Daddy Long Legs) Winfield, 6 feet 6 inches tall, he was a pitcher at the University of Minnesota, completed his advanced years with 13 wins and one lost, batted .400 and was chosen MVP of the College World Series. He was drafted by the Atlanta Hawks of the NBA, the Utah Stars of the ABA, and the Minnesota Vikings of the NFL even though he had not played football in college. Winfield was also selected by the Padres on June 5, 1973. As Sandy Koufax and Al Kaline, Winfield had no experience minor league, and made his major league debut two weeks later.

In 1980, after leading the National League in RBIs with 118, he signed a free agent contract with the Yankees; however, a misinterpretation of a clause on the cost of living took Steinbrenner to owe Winfield US $ 7 million extras and a dispute simmered prompting the Yankees owner to pay a convicted felon, Howard Spira began in exchange for supposedly damaging information related to Winfield. On the contrary, the damage fell on Steinbrenner, who was banned from baseball by Commissioner Fay Vincent.

Despite his problems with Steinbrenner, Winfield drove in 100 runs or more from 1982 to 1986, the first Yankee to get that figure in five consecutive seasons since Joe DiMaggio.

In 1984, Winfield consciously reduced its swing in a bid to win a batting title and came close; he batted .340 and finished three points behind Don Mattingly. Due to a back surgery lost the 1989 season; he entered the team in 1990. Angeles Angels drove 72 races in 112 games and won the Comeback of the Year Award.

He finished his career in 1995 with Cleveland, finishing with 465 home runs, in ninth place behind Stan Musial and Willie Stargell on the list of All Time.

In 1996, Winfield entered the broadcast booth as an analyst for Fox TV.

He was selected to the Hall of Fame in 2001.

Born in Anderson, South Carolina, Ben Taylor was a basis of the Negro Leagues, who played for the Birmingham Giants, first highlighted the Chicago American Giants, Indianapolis ABC, St. Louis Giants, Bacharach Giants, Washington Potomacs, Harrisburg Giants, and Baltimore Black Sox.

His playing career lasted played from 1908 to 1929. In all but one of his first 16 seasons, Taylor batted over 300. In a 1949 article in the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, Oscar Charleston Ben Taylor chose as its first base in Star team of all time.

Taylor started his profession as a pitcher for the Giants Birmingham in 1908. In the wake of playing for the St. Louis Giants (1911-12), New York Lincoln Giants (1912) and Chicago American Giants (1913-1914), Taylor turned into a name for the group playing one of his siblings, additionally players.

After a 1915 season in which batted .308, he hits .500 and shattered the Cuban league inviernal repeated in 1916. Championship season was 18-11 in the World Series, stealing three bases in five games.

Apart from a fraction of the 1919 season between Hill dale and one season with the Bacharach Giants, Ben plays with the ABC from 1914-1922.

Defensively, he was very good in shot balls and could execute all actions first base, making infielders lucieran well how grounded saved balls and making difficult plays with such ease that seemed routine.

Continuously a cooperative person, Ben was a perfect spot to have a great time club man. Amid his vocation, he was likewise chief and phenomenal educator of youthful players. It was from him that Buck Leonard figured out how to clean and immaculate your abilities as first baseman.

After retiring, Taylor was an active businessman, operated a pool hall and acquired the rights to print and sell programs Baltimore Elite Giants games.

He died at age 64 in Baltimore, Maryland.

He was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in 2006.

Of all the performances of the pitchers in times of pressure in baseball history, none compare with Addie Joss she held on October 2, 1908.


Only one week left in the season, three teams in the American League, the Detroit Tigers, Chicago White Sox and the Cleveland Indians (then called Naps by second baseman Nap Lajoie) they were separated by one-half game. Each party was crucial. Around 11,000 fans entered the League of Cleveland Park waiting for a match well launched by Joss, who sought its twenty-fourth victory. But his opponent, "Big Ed" Walsh White Sox, was almost untouchable. Walsh, master ensalivada ball, eventually won 40 games that season and threw 464 innings. The first two episodes passed without incident. At the bottom of the third, Joe Birmingham simple shot of Cleveland, one of only four hits allowed Walsh throughout the day. Birmingham Moments later stole second and when the shot hit him on the shoulder and walked, ran third. Walsh looked to third and threw a pitch that broke more than usual. Birmingham scored on a wild pitch. The unearned run was the only Cleveland scored all day to the extent that Walsh foiled all hitters with his ensalivada Nap ball, striking out 15 of them. When the advanced tickets, fans finally realized that Joss had not only held the White Sox scoreless, but not a single player from Chicago had reached base. Lajoie second baseman made some good plays on slow shot. In the seventh, Jones, outfielder Chicago, reached the count of 3 and 2. Then the next pitch he threw his bat and was walking toward first, only to hear the referee Tom Connolly thunder, "Strike three!" In the eighth, Pat Dougherty White Sox, fired the first homer against Joss strong that day, but Lajoie gracefully slid off the ball and threw to first to get it out. Chicago sent the dish three emerging online batters in the ninth inning. The first shot a harmless homer by Lajoie grounds. The second he struck. The crowd fell silent. According to a reporter, "a mouse walking through the floor of the stands would have sounded like a shovel tearing the concrete" The mighty John Anderson came to bat for the White Sox. At first launch he fired a foul line by the left. The second sent him violently to the third, where Bill Bradley had no opportunity to field all day. Bradley knocked the ball and hurried to pull. Fortunately for Joss, Anderson was a slow runner, and Bradley throw dust was raised by first baseman George Stovall just in time to make out. Amid fierce competition pennant against one of the best pitchers who recorded his greatest season, Joss was pitching a perfect game. It will not yield the pennant to Cleveland, which ended a half-game behind Detroit, but that does not demerit anything Joss effort.
 

 

In 1955 Arthur Daley of The New York Times called it "the most outstanding work that has been done in baseball in times of pressure." Certainly, that was the supreme moment of effulgent, but tragically short career. Adrian Joss was born in Woodland, Wisconsin, in 1880. He threw semiprofessional ball as a teenager and later pitched for the University of Wisconsin. He was playing for the semi-pro team Sheboygan when he was discovered and signed by the Toledo team Inter-State League in 1900. He had 19 and 16 in its first year and 25 and 15 in 1901 to draw the attention of several teams of major league, including Cleveland. The owner of Toledo tried to coax him into signing for a third year, when Joss discovered the subterfuge, he immediately signed with Cleveland. Tall and skinny, with 6 feet, 3 inches and 185 pounds, Joss threw a motion pinwheel that earned him the nickname "human Stinger". He had a good fastball and curve fast break with exceptional control. During his career he averaged 1.43 transfers per game, third best percentage in major league history.

 

The April 26, 1902, Joss made a memorable debut with Cleveland. Pulling against the St. Louis Browns, Joss had a game a hit, a debatable line shot by Jesse Burkett, and won 3 to 0. Cleveland center fielder claimed he had caught the line triggered by Burkett to 3 inches off the ground, and most of his teammates agreed. The referee Bill Carruthers, with the only vote that counted, described the catch as false. Joss won 17 games, including the leadership of the league with five shutouts in his rookie year, and then followed with 18 wins in 1903. It fell to 14 wins in 1904 but led the American League with a 1.59 earned run average allowed. From 1905-1908, their numbers were 20 and 12 with an ERA of 2.01; 21 and 9 with an ERA of 1.72; 27 and 11 with a PER of 1.83, and 24 and 11 effectiveness of 1.16. Its effectiveness, 1908 gave the leadership of the league, as his 27 victories in 1907, when he won 10 consecutive games. During the off-season, Joss was sportswriter Toledo News-Bee.

Another newspaper of Toledo, the Blade, then said of him: "Baseball was a profession, stricter than any other to take their vocation seriously he was, in turn, being taken seriously by people who recognized him. A much smarter man than usual and one that would have given luster to any profession where you have decided to embark. "

Often, Joss was hurt or injured. In 1903 he lost the final month of the season with a high fever. He suffered from malaria in 1904. Then in 1905 he remained without playing because of back problems. In 1909 his last winning record dropped to 14 and 13 and strikeout total to only half of the previous season. However, his 1.71 ERA certainly did not indicate any loss of skill. Joss began the 1910 season with four straight wins.

On April 20, he threw his second no-hitter against the White Sox, but it was a questionable decision. Early in the match, Freddy Parent Chicago shot a slow grounder to third that Bill Bradley was. Most chroniclers who viewed him as party scored hit, but when accumulated hitless innings began to reconsider its initial decision. Some of them sought the official scorer, only to discover that the White Sox owner Charles Comiskey, who saved in small things, had not bothered to hire one. That it left the decision up to the chroniclers. They spoke with Bradley, who said he should catch. When Joss walked all the way without allowing any freedom, the writers decided to change the Parent hit by a mistake to give Joss Bradley and his second no-hitter.

Roberto Clemente Walker was born in Barrio San Anton in Carolina, Puerto Rico, on August 18, 1934. The son of Melchor Clemente and Luisa Walker, who worked in a sugar plantation, both also, ran a shop and sale of meat products.

Roberto was the youngest of seven brothers. From an early age he practiced all kinds of sports. And among them, soon become baseball in his greatest passion.

Active member of the Police Athletic League and parishioner Carolina Baptist Church, Robert excelled in track and field events, winning medals in javelin throw and short runs. He played amateur baseball with Juncos Club and went on to the ranks of the Santurce Crabbers in the Puerto Rico Winter League. Santurce was hired by the Montreal Club Triple an International League affiliate of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Clemente joined the Pirates in 1955 and was in that club until 1972. His record within that team established as a regular member of the Pittsburgh Pirates for 18 seasons (1955-1972); I played in 2,433 games, had 9,454 at-bats; He scored 1,416 runs; He made 3,000 hits (the eleventh of twelve players to achieve this in the long history of 135 years of baseball including 250 homers).

Clemente participated in two World Series, batting 310 in 1960 and 414 in 1971. He was batting champion four times; He was selected the MVP of the National League of 1966; twelve times won the Gold Glove for his fielding ability and selected the MVP of the 1971 World Series.

He married in 1964 with Vera Cristina Zabala and had three children: Roberto Jr., Luis Roberto and Roberto Enrique. They had six, five and two years old when his father died. Roberto was a great father, a good son, good brother and a good husband. Person of great humanity who did much for others in the major leagues and did much to people, committed as it was the Gospel of Christian charity, interested in other people and children.

This explains why their fight was more than personal; was the struggle of race and the struggle of those less fortunate than himself. Certainly, he had genuine concern for humanity as a child of God and brother to all human beings.

The Christian virtues of Roberto Clemente led him to start a campaign for supplies and deliver them to the victims of the earthquake rocks of Managua, Nicaragua. Roberto had a tragic death when the plane was chartered to bring aid to earthquake victims crashed on December 31, 1972, New Year's Eve.

He had played for Santurce in Puerto Rico Winter League while a student and quickly attracted large with batting, fielding and throwing ability. Although the Milwaukee Braves offered him a signing bonus of $ 30,000, I manutvo a previous commitment to the Dodgers and signed for $ 10,000.
 

 However, he never played for Brooklyn or Los Angeles. A rule in effect at that time require that any player who signed for more than $ 4,000 was put on record in the major leagues after a year in the minors; otherwise, it could be signed by any other club for $ 4,000. Although the Dodgers tried to hide Clemente in Montreal to registration not to play him, he was claimed by the Pirates on November 22, 1954, for $ 4,000.

It was the best investment of Bucs since Honus Wagner. Clemente batted over .300 in thirteen seasons; won four batting crowns LN, finished with 3,000 hits, and ended a run of eighteen years with a career average of 317. NL MVP in 1966 was also selected to the All-Star Game twelve times.

A right fielder, Clemente earned twelve consecutive Gold Gloves. In 1958 he brought 22 runners to win the first of a record five titles assists. Star World Series, led the Bucs to championships in 1960 and 1971 and hit safe in every World Series game in which he played. In 1971 he took a run in the sixth and seventh game; he batted .414 with 12 hits, fielded without error, and was chosen MVP of the Series.

Clemente was suffering from back injuries throughout his career, as a result of arthritic spine caused by a car accident. He died in a plane crash on New Year's Eve in 1972, when he had a supply of food and medicine to earthquake victims in Nicaragua.

The usual five-year waiting was ignored, and in 1973 became the first Hispanic member of the Hall of Fame. Later he became the second baseball player after Jackie Robinson, to be portrayed on postage stamps of the United States.

Some of his posthumous honors and recognitions

• April 1973 ceremony was held to withdraw the number 21 team Pittsburgh Pirates.
• May 1973 - Former President Richard Nixon gave his widow Vera Clemente, the First Citizen Medal Posthumous.
• August 1973 - was inducted into the Hall of Fame baseball in Cooperstown, New York.
• 1973 - Awarded the name of Roberto Clemente Coliseum to the first capital city of San Juan, Puerto Rico.
• 1984 - The Post Office in Washington issued a postage stamp honoring his memory.
• 1998 - The recording industry publishes a musical based on his life. This recording, produced by Larry Harlow, was chosen as one of the highlights of the year by the National Foundation for Popular Culture.

Dominican baseball player. Samuel "Sammy" Sosa, known as El Bambino Caribbean is one of the most popular baseball stars of today, almost a legend for many of his followers. His beginnings in the sport back to his school days, but it was not until his arrival in the US major leagues when eventually became an idol to thousands of fans around the world. But besides an elite player, he is a man conscious of his origins and has managed to stay tied to his native country by supporting numerous charitable activities.

Samuel Sosa came into this world on November 12, 1968 in the town of San Pedro de Macoris in the Dominican Republic. As a child he started playing baseball at the school of his town and up to 16 years had the opportunity to participate in Little League of Santo Domingo. Always he noted for his powerful hitting at the time.
 

In 1985, when Sosa was still a teenager, his good work in the fields of Dominican baseball made the US team for the Texas Rangers to notice him and fichara for $ 3,500. This meant he moved to live in the United States and there began playing in Little League until 1989. Although he did not accompany him all the success, that was his first season known as majors. His debut materialized on June 16 of that year, compared with New York Yankees.

During his first few seasons Sammy Sosa parties alternated in the minor leagues and major competitions in the United States, pending become consolidated as one of the best right-handed hitters in the late twentieth century. Their results were not very good and ended up leaving the Rangers to play for the Chicago White Sox, but his situation did not improve much. Until 1992 it became a key date for him. It was that year when he was hired to play the Chicago Cubs on your computer.
 

From 1993 Sammy found success in Major League playing with the Cubs. It was at this club when the shooter right-handed batsman and gradually became the star of MLB's for years. In 1997 he renewed his contract for four years with a millionaire record and 1998 is considered as a historic season for him with its splendid game. In fact, it was named the tournament's most valuable player.

From the explosion of his game in 1998, Sammy Sosa not stopped receiving awards for their great results in the field. Besides participating in the Games seven times All-Star and 26 brands hold the majors, he has been named Player of the Month on five separate occasions over the years. It has also been given the Silver Slugger several times and received the MVP Award from the National League, Roberto Clemente and Hank Aaron for the National League.

Currently Sosa plays for the Baltimore Orioles club that signed him to the Chicago Cubs in exchange for Ariston Jerry Jr. and two minor league players. It is one of the highest paid stars of the MLB league and it is estimated that the tab for the seasons 2005 and 2006 ranges between 17 and 18 million. His performance in the field is still spectacular, despite the passage of time, and can boast of being one of the few professional players have exceeded 500 home runs. Your challenge is to get history reaching the magic number of 700.

Alex Rodriguez was born on July 27, 1975 in New York, United States. He is a renowned athlete who stands out as a professional baseball player, is of Dominican descent and has devoted to baseball for over 20 years. Alexander Rodriguez or A-Rod as it is also called is a player who has achieved great records in his defensive position as batsman, is currently active with the major league team the Yankees of New York, after returning from a suspension of a little over a year for their involvement with steroids unauthorized substances.

Who is Alex Rodriguez?

Who is Alex Rodriguez? Her parents are Victor Rodriguez and Lourdes Navarro, both Dominicans and parents of three children of which Alex is the youngest. Victor Rodriguez was professional baseball in his native Dominican Republic, a country where Alex Duarte spent some childhood years. So, baseball was always an important part of his early life, even in its early at school, Alex was also dedicated to football in his arrival in Miami.

It stands out in his biography, from the first steps in baseball Alex Rodriguez became known for their impressive numbers as a hitter, so when signing his professional contract in 1993 doe’s unequaled low expectation. Already completed its passage through the University of Miami, Alex gets a $ 1.3 million contract for three years with the team of MLB Seattle Mariners. However, its passage through the lower branches was very brief, because this just debuted in 1994 with the big club.
 

Its development within this team, allowed participating in a few times during their first two years. But in 1996, Alex got to start to show their skills with the bat, and achieve their first big numbers, so in this season managed to get an average of .358, with 36 homers and 100 RBIs.
 

Alex Rodriguez was quickly regarded as one of the most important players in baseball history. So immediately I got the record by signing the higher contract before seen, this time the Rangers would offer 250 million dollars for 10 seasons, and a record that was surpassed by him when in 2007 the Yankees were promised 275 million.
 

The records Rodriguez continued in subsequent years and also diversified, so quickly reached 500 homers, some four titles as MVP, a pair of gloves at least 10 gold and silver bats. It is also a player who has managed to push over 100 runs in at least more than 10 seasons and is also the youngest player to reach 600 homers.

Life of Alex Rodriguez

The life of Alex Rodriguez, is outstanding by having an exceptional talent in baseball, but has not been precisely characterized for being the favorite of his teammates and also the press. Although it is an undeniable ability baseball, Alex Rodriguez caught the controversy when he revealed he used steroids in 2009.
 

This new controversy, definitely tarnish the brilliant career he had made, because while recovering from surgery in 2013, would break the news about their connection to steroid use as a result of an investigation to the related clinic to supply such substances to several athletes.

However, despite Alex Rodriguez has denied this accusation, there has been speculation about their admission to federal agencies. So finally a suspended sanction of 162 games set, which kept him away from professional baseball so it subtracted from 2013 and throughout 2014.

George Herman Ruth was one of the most acclaimed athletes of his time. Still it remains the greatest baseball player, a legend in American culture.

Ruth began his professional baseball career as a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox (Red Sox). Before the sale to the Yankees, Ruth won 89 games over six seasons. Babe Ruth got his first home run record in 1920 when he hit 54 in a season. After defied critics who said that the record could not be broken, and hit 59 homers the following year. They were unthinkable number for the time. At the end of his career, Babe Ruth had hit 714 home runs, a record that would last many years and became a legend of the game.
 

When I was seven, George Herman Ruth was confined to St. Mary's Industrial School in Baltimore for repeated theft. Father Gilbert School later released him to pitch in the International League Baltimore Orioles and persuaded the manager-owner of the Orioles, Jack Dunn, to become the guardian of Ruth, Ruth adopting as his "Babe ".

 

In 1914 Ruth was acquired by the Red Sox sent to Providence, returned to Boston after emerging unscathed in 22 games. He won 18 games for the club of major league in 1915, following after 23 victories in 1916, and launched fully the longest game in World Series history that fall, a match of 14 innings to beat the Dodgers 2-1. Babe was first gardener in 1918 (though still enough to have launched 13 and 7 in 1918 and 9 and 5 the following year).

He left the mound in 1919, not counting five appearances cameo in the next 14 years, winning each of them, as the only man who has launched more than 1,000 entries and has a batting average above .300 lifetime (. 304).
 

In 1918 Ruth led the league in home runs (11) for the first time a record amount of 12 times. Harry Frazee, owner of the Red Sox and drowning in debt theatrical producer was forced to sell the Yankees that December.
 

Now playing their games at home in the cozy Polo Grounds, which they shared with the Giants Yankees, Ruth changed the game by hitting 54 homers; the rest of the American League had only 315. No one has approached his .847 slugging average, but himself the following year, when 846 registered mark.
 

Fans rushed to see him in his first year in New York, producing the first attendance of more than a million in baseball history and spurred the Yankees to build a Super Stadium in 1923, the legendary Yankee Stadium, which became known in the future as "The House that Ruth Built."
 

That year he hit .393 to lead the Yankees to their third straight pennant and first, the first of 22 World Series titles World Series.

He dominated the 1923 series, firing three home runs and batting .368. From 1926 to 1930, he led the league in home runs every year. The Yankees team of 1927 is probably considered the greatest baseball team in history, there are shared bats with figures such as Earle Combs, Lou Gehrig and Tony Lazzeri, all Hall of Fame. In the leadership of homers, tied with Lou in 1931. Three years later, Ruth asked the direction of the Yankees and was embarrassed when the owner Jacob Ruppert offered instead the main farm in New York.

He signed with the Braves and had a final moment of glory on May 25, 1935, by firing three homers in a game, one of them a prodigious homer over the right field roof at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh.
 

The Babe was removed a few weeks later with 714 homers, an average lifetime .342, and the highest slugging percentage in history (.690). It is possibly the most iconic baseball player in world history.
 

In 1936 at the inaugural ballot for the Hall of Fame he became one of the five founding members.

Biography of Miguel Cabrera, his name is Jose Miguel Torres Cabrera. He was born on April 18 in Maracay, Venezuela. This baseball player, who plays as a right for triggers of Detroit, has transcended the sport's history to win the Triple Crown in the 2012 season in Major League Baseball.

Who is Miguel Cabrera? 

Who is Miguel Cabrera? He is the son of Miguel Cabrera and Gregoria Torres. He grew up in the La Pedrera Maracay, a humble place where baseball is a passion and an important opportunity to progress, with dreams of more than one child.

When the four years it took to make their first classes, I saw another small hit by a pitch, which frightened him and checked his participation one year. But he got over and then gradually became an active participant.

He completed his training at the school of David Torres where he played until the prejunior category covering between 9 and 10 years old. His rise to juniors went through the team Fanametal in Cagua. He then played for Tigritos under the direction of scout Cincinnati Reds, Felix Delgado.

For 1997, its achievements led him to dispute the Pan American tournament in San Luis, in the United States. In this performance he was awarded second prize for excellence aragüeña youth.

It can be noted in his biography, his debut with the team Florida Marlins in the amount of $ 1.8 million, in 2000. He was the second youngest member in the history of this team to debut in the major leagues and the fifth player to hit a home run in his pro debut.

That same year he joined the team in Venezuela's Aragua Tigers and had a key action in the victory of the team in the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League. In the 2003-2004 seasons he hits 9 home runs and drove in 32 runs in 16 games. Then he got the win in 3 of the 4 seasons LVBP.

During this time he married his girlfriend in the neighborhood Liceo Cooperative, rosangel Polanco. The wedding was on June 26, 2002. The couple had three children: Rosángela, Isabela and Christopher.

Miguel Cabrera Life

The life of Miguel Cabrera, grew up around baseball make it one of its most important figures. He has received countless records, which have not been matched almost 50 years. He knew how to combine international opportunities, participating in major league baseball in his country.

It can be noted in his biography, his most significant stage with the Detroit Tigers. With them he signed a contract in 2008 for $ 152 million. With them in 2012 he reached the Triple Crown is the leader in three specific categories in a league. It reached a level of .330 batting average, 44 homers and 139 RBIs.

The unstoppable level of performance, allowed to renew in 2014, another 10-year contract with the Detroit Tigers for $ 292 million. Thus he became the highest paid player in baseball history.

Some incidents as a result of addiction to alcohol, motivated that was put into treatment under the supervision of the league. Currently he has overcome, and lives in Detroit a city with social problems, which however, baseball is a passion rooted popular.

Equipment and highlights actions Miguel Cabrera

• Florida Marlins- Years 2003-2007 World Series against the New York Yankees with 12 runs
• Detroit Tigers - Years 2008 until the present-Triple Crown: .330 batting average, 44 homers and 139 RBIs.
• Aragua Tigers nine homers and drove in 32 run in 16 games
• Selection Baseball Venezuela 2006-2009-2013.

Facts About Jackie Robinson

If Jackie Robinson had just been part of a baseball team, that alone would have been enough to ensure a place in the history of the game. But Robinson did more than make baseball the true national pastime. It is easy to overlook the kind of baseball player he was. He led the Brooklyn Dodgers to six championships in ten years (in addition to its only World Series) and was selected Rookie of the Year in 1947 and MVP in 1949.

When the Dodgers also had to Halls of Fame, Duke Snider, Pee Wee Reese and Roy Campanella, Robinson forced by their example, to raise their game, as he did with all his other teammates. The second baseman for the Cardinals, Red Schoendienst once, "but for him the Dodgers would be in second division," he said. Led by history and temperament, Robinson puzzled pitchers to dance to first base and had enough speed to steal rubber 19 times, 5 times in a season. He improved his average to .300 for six consecutive seasons, and retired with a .311 average. It was a first, second and third regular basis and left fielder and second baseman led the league in double plays four consecutive years (1949-1952).

The first man four letters of UCLA (baseball, basketball, football and tennis) went ahead and entered the Army Cadet School. There he underwent a court-martial, then resigned when he refused to sit in the back of a bus. After stints with the Kansas City Monarchs and the Montreal Royals Club training Dodgers, he made his major league debut with the Dodgers in 1947 at the ripe age of 28; Robby hit .297, scored 125 runs, and led his team to a championship. That fall was second in a survey in front of Bing Crosby as the most popular man in America.

Robinson, in just his second year, he became the team leader of the Dodgers. It started in the All-Star team for the first time six times (four at second base) in 1949; he led the league in batting, was selected as MVP, and led the Dodgers to another championship.

The last day of the 1951 season, Brooklyn needed a win to force a tie with the Giants, Robinson made a spectacular catch saving Game line Eddie Waitku to take the game into extra innings, then he won on the fourteenth inning with a homer. The Dodgers won the pennant that year thanks to Bobby Thomson, but recaptured the pennant in four of the final five seasons of Robinson.

Fifteen years after he joined the baseball, Robinson entered the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.