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Sergio Robles
Catcher
Born: (1946-04-16) April 16, 1946 (age 78)
Magdalena de Kino, Sonora, Mexico
Batted: Right
Threw: Right
MLB debut
August 27, 1972, for the Baltimore Orioles
Last MLB appearance
September 13, 1976, for the Los Angeles Dodgers
MLB statistics
Batting average.095
Home runs0
Runs batted in0
Teams
Member of the Mexican Professional
Baseball Hall of Fame
Induction2006

Sergio Robles Valenzuela (born April 16, 1946) is a Mexican former catcher in Major League Baseball from the northern Mexican town of Magdalena de Kino. He won five Mexican Pacific League championships over his 19 seasons with the Naranjeros de Hermosillo. [1] Later, He played in 16 games over three seasons (1972, 1973, 1976) for the Baltimore Orioles and Los Angeles Dodgers. He had been acquired along with Doyle Alexander, Bob O'Brien and Royle Stillman by the Orioles from the Dodgers for Frank Robinson and Pete Richert at the Winter Meetings on December 2, 1971.[2] In his native México he is known as Kaliman after a Mexican comic book hero. He was enshrined in his hometown of Magdalena by a statue that was unveiled in 2018 outside of the Estadio Padre Kino, a 3,000-seat baseball stadium that serves as the home of the amateur Membrilleros de Magdalena. [1]

References

  1. ^ a b Guardado, Maria. “How the Urías Brothers Rose Up the Ranks of Mexican Baseball,” MLB, March 9, 2023 Retrieved April 11, 2023
  2. ^ Durso, Joseph. "White Sox Add Bahnsen, Ship McKinney to Yanks," The New York Times, Friday, December 3, 1971. Retrieved December 4, 2021
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