In the previous installment we talked about Cuban baseball player Antonio “Tony” Pacheco and his numbers in baseball.
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Our collaborator Rafael Octavio Castillos, who not only knows golf, but also has a great general culture and a good memory, wrote to me.
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“Another Tony Pacheco, also Cuban, acted in the Dominican ball, but in the role of manager in the 67-68 season with the Stars,” Castillos wrote.
He won the regular series with 38-22 and then the final, to the delight of the Orientals.
“He had a super team, including Rico Carty, Rafael Batista, Vidal Nicolás, Hal King, all men of power,” he continues to contribute.
Pitching was Mike Cuellar, then a major league star.
Pacheco had a very particular way of directing. On one occasion I asked him here at the Cibao stadium about his strategy of losing by 5 races and his team with runners in first and second and yet ordering a touch to advance them, instead of playing for rally, as the book says.
He replied “if you are losing, to win you have to draw first.”
The very common then bunt (a little plate as my father used to say), which today has almost disappeared with modern baseball and the designated hitter, since the pitcher does not hit.
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In a kind of postscript, Castillos adds, “By the way, in the final against Escogido, Cuéllar threw a near perfect game, a single hit and faced 28 players.
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SQUEEZE PLAY: Is there a long way to go until February 27? … When Tony Pacheco won the championship directing the Stars in 1968, it was only the second crown for the pachyderms … In 1954, led by another Cuban, Ramón Bragaña, the elephants were the monarchs, his first crown … The historian Rafael Baldayac highlighted in a review that beginning that 1967/68 season, the first game between the Stars and Tigers was suspended in 18 0-0 innings … The regulations established that the maximum duration of the games was the 12:00 at night and it was 12:10 … Now 18 chapters are being played and the sun rises … It should be noted that the hit in Mike Cuéllar’s game was shot by Antulio Martínez … In that game he retired the first 23 online … Cuéllar set a record, 18.0 innings without allowing runs… The Lions won the fourth game with complete pitching by Juan Marichal… Larry Dierker threw the entire championship game that the Stars won 2-1… Tony Pacheco had other Cubans like Mike Cuéllar, Rigo Berto Mendoza and Chico Ruiz… Also, Rico Carty, El Gallo Batista, Vidal Nicolás, Hal King, Ted Kubiak and Félix Santana… Also, Jaime Davis, Ron Davis, Doc Edward, Edmundo Borromé, Tony Paulino and León Everritt… Pitchers like Jim Ray, Silvano Quezada, Danny Combs, Chichi Olivo and not to mention Cuéllar and Dierker … The first time they beat the Tigres, the second time the Lions and 51 years later the third time came to the neighboring Toros in 2019 … He told me “My Ball of Fogged Glass “, which, the Northern Lights, Galileo Galilei baptized as Goddesses of the Morning … For today, out 27.
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Tony pacheco
