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Connie Marrero, a Cuban treasure
Connie Marrero once struck out Mickey Mantle three times in one game. Not bad for someone who learned how to pitch by throwing oranges on a farm in Cuba.
As with most of his stories, the Mantle anecdote is punctuated by Marrero's dry sense of humor. This particular incident, he explains, started long before the actual three-strikeout punchline. Once, during a spring training exhibition against...
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