Word: valenzuelas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Chronicling the life of 1950s teen-idol Ritchie Valens (Lou Diamond Phillips), La Bamba is an ode to the American middle-class dream. The film opens with the Valenzuela family, a group of Mexican immigrants, working as California migrant workers...
...certain view of the child's place in the world, but the effect of such a view probably differs considerably from one person to another. Someone with a name like Otto inevitably knows the burdens of an ethnic heritage, but so, presumably, do Madonna Ciccone and Fernando Valenzuela, and we all survive...
...could put up some hitting statistics." His preference would be to swing lefthanded, but to safeguard his priceless arm from inside pitches, the Mets require him to bat from the right. Nonetheless, he has cracked three hits in the same game off no less than Los Angeles Rival Fernando Valenzuela. "I'm lucky to have one hit in two years off him," grins Fernando, a grizzled veteran of 25. With quite a different pitch but a similar acclaim, Valenzuela arrived from Mexico on a screwball six years...
With Liz Taylor watching from the St. Louis box--but wearing a Los Angeles warmup jacket--the Dodgers drubbed the visiting Cardinals, 4-1, in the opening game of the National League Championship Series. Los Angeles benefited from the fine pitching performance of the true-blue tandem of Fernando Valenzuela and Tom Niedenfuer...
John Tudor (21-9) goes for the visitors against the Dodgers' Fernando Valenzuela...