Andrés Mora

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Andrés Mora
Left fielder
Born: (1955-05-25)May 25, 1955
Río Bravo, Coahuila, Mexico
Died: June 12, 2015(2015-06-12) (aged 60)
Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico
Batted: Right
Threw: Right
MLB debut
April 13, 1976, for the Baltimore Orioles
Last MLB appearance
May 6, 1980, for the Cleveland Indians
MLB statistics
Batting average.223
Home runs27
Runs batted in83
Teams
Career highlights and awards
Member of the Mexican Professional
Baseball Hall of Fame
Induction2003

Andrés Mora Ibarra (May 25, 1955 – June 12, 2015) was a Mexican professional baseball outfielder. He played all or part of four seasons in the majors, between 1976 and 1980, for the Baltimore Orioles and Cleveland Indians of Major League Baseball (MLB). He continued to play professionally in Mexico until 1997 for the Saraperos de Saltillo, Tecolotes de Nuevo Laredo and Industriales de Monterrey, and ranks 3rd all time in home runs in Mexican League history. He was elected to the Mexican Professional Baseball Hall of Fame in 2003. He died on June 12, 2015, of pneumonia.[1]

In 2020, Mora was selected as the starting left fielder of the Mexican League Historic Ideal Team by a committee of baseball journalists and historians.[2]

Sources[edit]

  1. ^ Obituary. Esto en Línea. (Spanish). Retrieved on March 27, 2016.
  2. ^ "La LMB dio a conocer su Novena Ideal Histórica" (in Spanish). Major League Baseball. 28 June 2020. Archived from the original on 1 September 2020. Retrieved 29 May 2023.

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