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Orestes Destrade (born May 8, 1962) is a Cuban American former professional baseball infielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees , Pittsburgh Pirates , and Florida Marlins .
Orestes Destrade, former MLB first baseman and current broadcaster, Cuban-born [27] Eric Eichmann, former US National Team and American professional soccer player; Cuban mother; Yunel Escobar, current shortstop for the Los Angeles Angels, Cuban-born [28] Alex Fernandez, former pitcher for the Florida Marlins; Mary Joe Fernández, tennis player
He made his major league debut on September 15, 1988, against the Pittsburgh Pirates, earning a 9–4 victory with a five-inning outing in which he gave up two runs with five strikeouts; his first victim was Orestes Destrade in the second inning. Johnson posted a record of 3–0 with a 2.42 earned run average (ERA) in four games in 1988, but ...
Orestes at Delphi flanked by Athena and Pylades among the Erinyes and priestesses of the oracle, perhaps including Pythia behind the tripod – Paestan red-figured bell-krater, c. 330 BC. In Greek mythology, Orestes or Orestis (/ ɒ ˈ r ɛ s t iː z /; Ancient Greek: Ὀρέστης [oréstɛːs]) was the son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, and ...
Orestes Lorenzo Pérez picked up his family and managed a successful safe return to Marathon, Florida. [7] A Cessna 310 similar to the one used by Major Orestes Lorenzo to rescue his family in Cuba in 1992. On September 17, 1993, Cuban Captain Enio Ravelo Rodriguez, defected in his MiG-21 to Naval Air Station Key West, Florida.
In ancient times, there was Orestias, a small settlement on this site which legends claim was founded by Orestes, the son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra. Following the Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922) and the Armistice of Mudanya (October 1922), the Western Forces surrendered Eastern Thrace to Turkey and the Greek army was ordered to withdraw ...
Electra and Orestes later avenged their father, but Orestes was the one who was chased by the Furies. See below for further details. Nestor, who had the best conduct in Troy and did not take part in the looting, was the only hero who had a good, fast and safe return. [9] Those of his army that survived the war also safely reached home with him.
The play dramatises the story of the ancient Greek myth of Orestes.Rather than Aeschylus' trilogy of Athenian tragedies Oresteia (458 BCE), however, Pickering's source for his version of the story is William Caxton's translation of the French romance Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye (translated in 1475). [3]