Cecilio Acosta Miranda (born 22 November 1946) is a Mexican retired

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who played four seasons for the

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and

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. Acosta also spend 17 seasons playing in the

Mexican League The Mexican League (, ) is a professional baseball league based in Mexico and the oldest running professional league in the country. The league has 18 teams organized in two divisions, North and South. Teams play 114 games each season. Five te ...

and the

Mexican Pacific League The Mexican Pacific League (), known as Liga ARCO Mexicana del Pacífico for sponsorship reasons or simply LMP for its acronym in Spanish, is a professional baseball winter league based in Northern Mexico. The ten-team regular season schedule run ...

. Acosta became the first American League pitcher to make a plate appearance after the introduction of the

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rule in 1973, doing so on 20 June 1973.

Career

Acosta was born on 22 November 1946 in El Sabino,

Guasave Municipality Municipality of Guasave is a municipality in Sinaloa in northwestern Mexico. Its seat is Guasave Guasave () is a city and the seat of the homonymous municipality in the Mexican state of Sinaloa. It is located in the northwestern part of Mexic ...

Sinaloa Sinaloa (), officially the Estado Libre y Soberano de Sinaloa ( en, Free and Sovereign State of Sinaloa), is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the Administrative divisions of Mexico, Federal Entities of Mexico. It is d ...

, Mexico. He made his professional debut in 1966 playing for the Mineros de Fresnillo of the

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, a minor league circuit affiliated to the

, and was promoted in 1968 to the AAA

Charros de Jalisco The Charros de Jalisco ( en, Jalisco Horsemen) are a professional baseball team in the Liga Mexicana del Pacífico, Mexican Pacific League based in Zapopan, Jalisco. Their home ballpark is Estadio de Béisbol Charros de Jalisco y Atletismo, Estadi ...

. He played four seasons with the Charros and in 1971 he was signed by the

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of the

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. In 1972, Acosta made his MLB debut playing for the

. On 17 July 2005, Acosta was inducted into the

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as part of that year's class.

References

External links

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at Baseball Almanac 1946 births Living people Alacranes de Campeche players Algodoneros de Unión Laguna players Angeles de Puebla players Azules de Coatzacoalcos players Baseball players from Sinaloa Charros de Jalisco players Charros de Orizaba players Chicago White Sox players Iowa Oaks players Major League Baseball pitchers Major League Baseball players from Mexico Mexican Baseball Hall of Fame inductees Mexican expatriate baseball players in the United States Mexican League baseball pitchers Mineros de Fresnillo players Pericos de Puebla players Petroleros de Poza Rica players Philadelphia Phillies players Porteños de Puerto México players Rieleros de Aguascalientes players Tomateros de Culiacán players Tucson Toros players Yaquis de Obregón players {{Mexico-baseball-pitcher-stub