Connie Marrero, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Cuban baseball player
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Place of Birth: Sagua La Grande, Villa Clara Province, Cuba
About Connie Marrero
- Conrado Eugenio Marrero Ramos (April 25, 1911 – April 23, 2014), nicknamed "Connie", was a Cuban professional baseball pitcher.
- The right-handed Marrero pitched in Major League Baseball from 1950 to 1954 for the Washington Senators.
- Marrero made his major league debut when he was 38 years old, and was one of the oldest players in the league throughout the duration of his time in the major leagues.
- He was a popular star in his native Cuba, where he had a long and successful career in amateur baseball, pitching for Cuba in several Amateur World Series competitions, and playing several excellent seasons with the professional Cuban League and the minor league Havana Cubans.
- His nicknames in Cuba were "El Guajiro de Laberinto" (The Peasant from Laberinto), reflecting his rural origins, "El Premier", and "El Curvo."Marrero's pitches were primarily "slow stuff—curves, sliders and knucklers." Roberto González EchevarrĂa provides the following description: "A bit plump, of less than average height, with short arms and small hands, Marrero looked, in uniform, like someone in a baseball costume, not a player.
- He looked more like a Spanish grocer or peasant than an athlete."At age 102, Marrero was the oldest living former Major League Baseball player at the time of his death.
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