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Alberto Lois (May 6, 1956 – March 12, 2019), was a Major League Baseball player. Lois played for the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1978 and 1979. He was used primarily as a pinch runner, but was also an outfielder.
Francisco Alfredo Edmead (1956 – August 22, 1974) was a minor league baseball player who was killed in a freak on-field accident in 1974. [1]A native of the Dominican Republic and one of eleven children, Alfredo Edmead joined the Salem Pirates of the Carolina League as a 17-year-old in 1974.
The incident involved two motorcycles on the Las Galeras-Samaná highway in Samaná, Dominican Republic. García was 24 years old. We are deeply saddened by the passing of former Astros prospect ...
Acosta and a colleague, Humberto Trejo, were killed in an automobile accident on April 19, 2006, while working in the Dominican Republic with the New York Yankees minor league system. Acosta had a wife and three children. [3] His son, Ryan, was drafted by the Chicago Cubs in the 2007 amateur draft.
Former Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz fought for his life following a shooting in his native Dominican Republic back in 2019. Ortiz, one of the greatest designated hitters in MLB history, was ...
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.
On the evening of June 9, 2019, the Dominican-American retired professional baseball player David Ortiz, formerly of the Boston Red Sox and Minnesota Twins, was shot and severely wounded while at a bar in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Ortiz survived and received emergency medical treatment, while an investigation quickly resulted in the ...
Cruz is the son of retired minor leaguer Rafael Cruz. The elder Cruz named his son after his favorite player, former New York Yankees outfielder Paul O'Neill. [23]On September 22, 2020, Cruz was involved in a deadly vehicle crash in the Dominican Republic in which three people were killed.