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Word: villalona (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1966-1966
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...fanaticism. She railed against his playing ball because it interfered with school and farm chores, tried to stop him from attending grownups' games for fear he would be hit by a foul ball. Luckily, Juan's older brother Gonzalo and his sister's husband, Prospero Villalona, were baseball nuts too. By the time he was nine, Juan could throw a curve (his lopsided, homemade baseballs wouldn't do anything else), and he quit school after the eleventh grade "because I was crazy about the game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: The Dandy Dominican | 6/10/1966 | See Source »

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