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The soft-tossing Cuban didn't throw his first MLB pitch until he was 32 years old. Seven years later, he collected four World Series rings, always pitching at his best under the brightest lights.
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Sources (in order):
El Duque Cuban Defection, Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1998/01/01/cuban-baseball-defector-gets-humanitarian-parole/92d7655f-4e12-41ce-84e7-1a1d5a38df13/
El Duque Cuban Defection, ESPN: https://www.espn.com/espn/magazine/archives/news/story?page=magazine-19980406-article36
Angels Contract Offer, LA Times: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-feb-21-sp-21590-story.html
Translator Controversy, Sun Sentinel: https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2002/07/03/tejera-makes-it-tough-to-pencil-him-into-the-pen/
Posada Brawl, NY Daily News: https://www.nydailynews.com/2002/09/15/yanks-brawl-rocket-stalls-reports-el-duque-slugs-posada/
Music (in order):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96qogC-0VjI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfm0nyKz7Mg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEixeEXfBn0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ip7AI6LqCXM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqiSWgjwPxI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiYs5z4xdBU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqsPjuyvM6c
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