CARACAS – Visiting the University Stadium of Caracas is a fascinating experience for several reasons: the landscape offered by the enclosure at the foot of the Avila, the stories you can hear from older people while sipping a drink and of course watching a competition. baseball.
On one of these occasions, William told the audience a story about the historian Alfonso “Chico” Carrasquel.
According to what said this nice gentleman who wore a baseball shirt that read “Ferretería el tornillo” (I guess it’s a local team), “El Chico” was the third Venezuelan to play in Major League Baseball. Before him, pitcher Alfonso “patón” Carrasquel and winger Chucho Ramos had succeeded. The arrival of Alfonso Carrasquel in baseball was a very popular event.
William said that “El chico” during the “Spring Trainning” drank orange juice all the time, there were containers with the juice of this citrus fruit everywhere. He liked the young Venezuelan so much that he filled bottles to take to the bedroom. So far it seems like a normal story of a guy who likes orange juice.
After some time, Alfonso Carrasquel began to notice that a part of his body no longer worked as it used to. Worried, he talked to his roommate about it and went to the doctor.
When the doctor heard the story of “Chico” he burst into laughter that stunned the Venezuelan. The doctor explained that the camp where his team trained had been a military base and to decrease sexual libido the soldiers were given a special orange juice with bromide. Let’s imagine that after this visit the player put aside his passion for orange juice.
This is one of the many stories that can be heard on some occasions (putting aside the greetings to the relatives of the umpires) when visiting the University stadium.
(by Fioravante De Simone / Caracas editorial staff)
