Word: marrero
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four-week good-will tour of the Caribbean and Central America. Instead of sticking to the usual bland official generalities, Nixon wowed his Cuban audience at Havana's military airport by confiding that he greatly admired the prowess of three eminent Cuban athletes: Washington Senators Pitcher Conrado Marrero, Chicago White Sox Outfielder Orestes Minoso and ex-Welterweight Champion Kid Gavilan...
Despite such restrictions, the winter leagues manage to comb the majors for all the talent they can get. This month, as the southern season got under way, a traveling ball fan could recognize familiar names. The Yankees' Willie Miranda and the Senators' Con Marrero were playing for Cuba's Almendares. The White Sox's Chico Carrasquel was in Caracas. In Santurce, P.R., fans were being treated to the antics of the Giants' incomparable Willie Mays...
Washington (Marrero) 10, Detroit...
...Griffith Stadium to throw out the first baseball of the season. Rest had improved his color. He spat on his right hand, grinned, and sent a new white baseball flying to the field, watched the game for an inning and a half (with Washington's Pitcher Connie Marrero standing by to cut off any fouls that might threaten to bean him) before heading, a little shakily, back to the plane...
Washington (Marrero) 5, New York...