Word: damaso
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...never felt like I was imposing when I'd hang over the dugout for and autograph. After one game at Fenway about six years ago I stopped Damaso Garcia as he walked out of the parking lot. "You don't want my autograph--I'm not on the Red Sox," he said. "Yes I do," I said, "because you're Damaso Garcia, the second baseman for the Blue Jays." He smiled, and signed...
...Blue Jays walked Pat Sheridan intentionally to pitch to Balboni. But Balboni, who set a team record with 36 homers this season, hit a blooper into center field that fell between the outstretched gloves of shortstop Tony Fernandez, second baseman Damaso Garcia and center fielder Lloyd Moseby...
...Sugar" DeLeon, from Puerto Rico, is world champion). Almost 100 of the roughly 1,000 players in major league baseball at the beginning of the season were born in Latin America. A Hispanic All-Star team might include Pitchers Fernando Valenzuela, Joaquin Andujar and Willie Hernandez; Infielders Rod Carew, Damaso Garcia and Dave Concepcion; Outfielders Tony Armas and Pedro Guerrero...
...adaptive; a maturing style begins searching for a worthy subject. Increasingly, Garcia Márquez turns to the bizarre frustrations imposed on people, both wealthy and impoverished, who live in isolation from the world at large. There Are No Thieves in This Town (1962) traces the troubles of Damaso, a poor young man with a pregnant wife, who robs the local pool hall and comes away with nothing but three billiard balls. It is bad enough that he cannot sell them; worse, the social life of the town begins to atrophy, since it may take months for new balls...
Trailing 4-3, the Blue Jays scored four runs in the fifth, Toronto loaded the bases on singles by Buck Martinez and Alfredo Griffin and a hit batsman, Damaso Garcia, Moseby cleared the bases with his double, and Dave Collins singled him in to put Toronto ahead...