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Lefty Gomez Remembered mainly for his colorful personality, lefty gomez was also one ofbaseball s greatest winners, ranking third in Yankee history in regularseason http://www.baseball-statistics.com/HOF/Gomez.html
Extractions: Pitcher New York Yankees Tall and lanky, Vernon "Lefty" Gómez baffled the opposition with a blazing fastball and sweeping curve, while entertaining teammates with his wit and good humor. Remembered mainly for his colorful personality, Lefty Gomez was also one of baseball's greatest winners, ranking third in Yankee history in regular-season wins with 189. (He trails only Whitey Ford and Red Ruffing Gómez was a 20-game winner four times during the 1930s, won ERA titles in 1934 and 1937, and comprised one half of the Yankees' devastating 1-2 punch along with right-hander Ruffing (as a lefty-righty duo, the Dodger duo of Koufax Drysdale and the Atlanta Braves Greg Maddux and Tom Glavine rival them, and maybe Warren Spahn and Johnny Sain in the late 1940s were close Gomez's zaniness set him apart from the decorous Yankees of the 1930s. He once held up a World Series game, exasperating manager
Baseball Was Very, Very Good To Him For one, Joe became so unmistakably good at baseball, and there was so much of most notably lefty O Doul in San Francisco and lefty gomez in New York. http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/10/29/reviews/001029.29sheedt.html
Lefty Gomez | BaseballLibrary.com lefty gomez profile from BaseballLibrary.com, the most comprehensive baseballhistory encyclopedia on the Internet. We give you the stories behind the stats http://www.baseballlibrary.com/baseballlibrary/ballplayers/G/Gomez_Lefty.stm
Baseball First Minority Baseball Player?? Can anyone tell me who the first minority baseball player and did lefty Gomezplay for American baseball league before Jackie Robinson? http://www.killermovies.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-332330
Extractions: Baseball first Minority Baseball Player Text-only Version: Click HERE to see this thread with all of the graphics, features, and links. KMC Forums Misc Sports Forum NiceGuynj Okay I heard that Jackie Robinson is the first african-american baseball player of the "modern" era but who was the first minority because Lefty Gomez who is Mexican desecent and born in California played for the Yankees from 1930-1942 and was in about 3 world series and was great back then and I think Jackie Robinson first played with the dodgers in 1947.Can anyone tell me who the first minority baseball player and did Lefty Gomez play for American baseball league before Jackie Robinson?If any one can tell me it would be great so I can get my facts straight.Thanks. forumcrew heres a couple links that will clear this up
AAGPBL Isabel lefty Alvarez was the youngest of all the Cuban Latinas to ever play in Now retired and a baseball legend, Isabel continues to shine and a day http://hrc.utsa.edu/aagpbl/isabelalvarez.htm
Extractions: by Mario Longoria "Lefty" with the Chicago Colleens I sabel "Lefty" Alvarez was the youngest of all the Cuban Latinas to ever play in the AAGPBL and only one of two (the other being Migdalia "Mickey" Perez) to play in the final season of the league in 1954. S he was born on October 31, 1933 in Havana, Cuba to Virtudes Zerdan and Prudencio Alvarez De Leon. Her mother was an inspiration who constantly guided her to move forward. She was also an avid baseball fan of the Almendares Azules (Blues)/Alacranes (Scorpions) baseball team in Havana; who made a late season surge to win Cuba's Baseball Championship in 1947. According to Isabel, she followed them religiously and listened to their games on the radio. Her father served in the Navy and later a policemen for the government of President Fulgencio Batista. The rest of the family was her brother Antonio Alvarez De Leon, who also played baseball but not at the level Isabel had achieved. He still lives in Cuba. W hen Isabel first arrived in the United States, it was a difficult time for her, but she realized her mother's wisdom in time, she says, "my mother's idea for me to come to the U.S., because Cuba was no good for poor people. If you have an education, the rich get rich and the poor get poorer. So my mother figured that baseball was the only way to get out of the country and she worked things out very well".
