Bernardo Brito known as EL Pupo (born December 4, 1963), is a retired professional baseball player who played

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and

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in the Major Leagues from –. While having a successful minor league career, hitting 299 home runs and playing in three minor league all-star games over the course of 15 seasons, he would play only 40 games in the Major Leagues for the

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Career

Brito's career began in 1981 with Batavia of the New York-Penn League, within the

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organization. He joined the Minnesota Twins organization in 1988. From 1984 to 1991, he won six home run titles in the minor leagues. When the

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moved

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in 1994, Brito endeared himself to the new fans by racking up 29 home runs and 122 RBI's in the team's first season as the

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. Upon his mid-season release from the Twins in 1995, Brito took his talents to Japan, where he signed with the

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and spent the rest of 1995 (hitting 21 home runs in 56 games) and all of the 1996 season. Bernardo Brito was elected to the

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All-Star team in 1996. Released, along with

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, by Nippon Ham following the 1996 season, Brito concluded his professional baseball career in 1998 with the

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of the independent

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. Brito began the season as the team's

, but chose to retire from playing and finished the season as the Canaries batting coach. In between, he played with the

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and Caimanes del Sur clubs of the Dominican Winter League, where he was known for his power hitting.

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