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On the ball | Tany Pérez is also immortal

“If I didn’t write every day, I wouldn’t deserve my food” … Charlie Chaplin.-

Question of the Week…: Bud Fowler was inducted into the Hall of Fame by one of the veterans committees. Pitcher and second baseman for 20 years, 1878-1898. What were the two most notable events of yours?

The answer …: Jackie Robinson was the first black on a professional white team in the 20th century, 1947. But Fowler was before, when from 1878 on he was featured on white posters, such as New Castle in Pennsylvania, or the Keokuk of Iowa. Fowler’s other remarkable story is that his entire career was without gloves, because they didn’t exist.

I am guilty.- I made an unforgivable mistake yesterday by not mentioning Tany Pérez among Latin Americans in the Hall of Fame. But thanks to the reader friend, the doctor Ramón García M. I can correct today.

I should have written …: When Tony Oliva and Orestes Miñoso are elevated in July, there will be 17 of us in Cooperstown, with six Cubans, the other four, Tany Pérez, José de la Caridad Méndez (The Black Diamond), Martín Dihigo and Cristóbal Torriente. From Puerto Rico, also five, Roberto Clemente, Iván Rodríguez, Roberto Alomar, Orlando Cepeda and Edgar Martínez. Three Dominicans, Juan Marichal, Padro Martínez, Vladimir Guerrero. Panamanians, two, Mariano Rivera and Rod Carew. A Venezuelan, Luis Aparicio.

Strike professionals.- Player leader Tony Clark does not speak. Commissioner Rob Manfred thinks the lockout is not good for baseball, as if it were something new. Neither Clark nor Manfred care about sports or entertainment …

“The bad thing about this war against old age is that I have no way to defend myself” … Charlie Chaplin.-

Very honored dealer.- This is the last straw! One who was sentenced in Canada, in the middle of the 1980 season, because he tried to smuggle cocaine and marijuana, of course, is part of the Golden Days Era Committee. This is Ferguson Jenkins, who was also elevated to the Hall of Fame in 1991.

When he learned about that drug trafficking, Commissioner Bowie Kühn suspended Jenkins indefinitely, but high-ranking personalities intervened and obtained the sentence of a judge, ordering the reinstatement of the trafficker.

I suggest Barry Bonds, Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa and Roger Clemens hire Jenkins to sort out the Hall of Fame for them.

“If you kill two in a street fight, you are a criminal. But if you kill thousands in war, you are a hero ”… Charlie Chaplin.

Thanks to the life that has given me so much, even a reader like you.

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