Category: Player Bios
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Anaya, Rogelio
The key thing to know about Rogelio Anaya is that he was not a good pitcher. He walked too many batters, allowed too many runs, and generally made a fool of himself. And yet, if you wanted to watch a ballgame like no other, it was precisely Rogelio Anaya whom you wanted on the mound.
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de la Guila, Espártaco
In a time when the home run was less an offensive weapon and more an object of contentious debate, Espártaco de la Guila became notorious for allowing them in nearly every possible circumstance—a surprising propensity from a man whose baseball career was, perhaps, the least interesting part of his life.
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Gallegos, Tibulo
Every man to wear a Liga Nacional Puertorriqueña uniform earns a place, however small, in its long and motley history. Tibulo Gallegos—thanks entirely to his documented inability to behave dishonorably, even when it put him in lifelong conflict with his own family or his wife’s—has one of its strangest.