Word: osorio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week the season rose to a climax as Cuba, Panama, Puerto Rico and Venezuela met in Panama in a round-robin fight for the twelfth annual Caribbean championship. When Panama's Elias Osorio hit a two-run homer over the wall to beat Venezuela in the bottom of the ninth, he was waylaid by a delirious mob on the third-base line. Frantic hands clutched his sleeve, pounded his back, hoisted him high and then dropped him. Waiting at home plate, Umpire Pat Orr fumed as he fought to keep his feet in the crush. "Be patient...
...Osorio did eventually make it, but not before the crowd had twisted his thumb so enthusiastically that he could not play the next day against Cuba. Worse yet for Panama fans, Lopez announced that he was too sick to take the field. After Lopez' hapless sub had made two errors, orange husks began to swirl out of the stands like snow. Hundreds of spectators jammed around the dugout as desperate umpires begged Lopez to play so that the game could go on. Lopez finally acceded to the wishes of his public, but he went none for four as Cuba...