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Osvaldo José Virgil Pichardo (May 17, 1932 – September 29, 2024) was a Dominican professional baseball player and coach. He was the first person from the Dominican Republic to play in Major League Baseball (MLB), appearing in 324 MLB games between 1956 and 1969 as a utility player for the New York / San Francisco Giants, Detroit Tigers, Kansas City Athletics, Baltimore Orioles, and the ...
Ozzie Virgil Sr., the first player native to the Dominican Republic to play Major League Baseball, died at the age of 92. He played nine seasons in the majors.
Players in bold are still active in MLB, as of 2022. Since 1956 a large number of baseball players of Dominican origin have played in Major League Baseball in the United States, with the Dominican Republic being the second country in the world after the United States with the most current baseball players in MLB.
The list is based on players' birthplaces and each location's current country, per detailed records at Baseball-Reference.com. [a] For example, a player born in Berlin would be included with other players born in present-day Germany, even if when the player was born it might have been part of East Germany or West Germany. [b]
There were 98 Dominican-born players on MLB opening day rosters in 2021, more than any other country – with Venezuela at 64 and 19 Cubans rounding out the top three countries with the most ...
The most represented overseas country is the Dominican Republic, with 171 players called up to 26-man rosters. [9] The ranking for countries for most MLB players by birth matches well with the WBSC World Rankings, although East Asia and Australia underperforms in MLB and European nations have little to no representation, likely due to ...
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Pedro Guerrero was born on June 29, 1956, in San Pedro de Macorís, on the east coast of the Dominican Republic. During his early teenage years, he left school to support his family by working in the island's rum industry, earning less than US$3 a week from cutting cane.