Ramón "Mike" Herrera
r-ray'-ra(December 19, 1892
– February 3, 1978) was an
infielder
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Standard arrangement of positions
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in
Major League Baseball, playing mainly as a
second baseman for the
Boston Red Sox in part of two seasons. Listed at tall and , Herrera batted and threw
right-handed. He was born in
Havana, Cuba
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Long before
Jackie Robinson
Jack Roosevelt Robinson (January 31, 1919 – October 24, 1972) was an American professional baseball player who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball (MLB) in the modern era. Robinson broke the baseball color line ...
and
Larry Doby, Herrera was one of the first men to play in both the major leagues (
1925
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** The Syrian Federation is officially dissolved, the State of Aleppo and the State of Damascus having been replaced by the State of Syria.
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–
1926
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* January 3 – Theodoros Pangalos declares himself dictator in Greece.
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) and the
Negro leagues (
1915
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1928
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). He played for the
Cuban Stars (West) of the
Negro National League in 1920 and 1921, and for the
Cuban Stars (East)
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of the
Eastern Colored League in 1928. He joined the Boston Red Sox in September 1925, appearing in 10 games while hitting a .385
batting average, but he hit only .257 in 74 games in 1926.
In a two-season major league career, Herrera was a .275 hitter (76-for-276) with 22
runs and 27
RBI in 84 appearances, including 14
doubles, one
triple
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* Triple (baseball), a three-base hit
* A basketball three-point field goal
* A figure skating jump with three rotations
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, and one
stolen base
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. He did not hit a
home run.
Herrera also played for many seasons in the
Cuban Winter League.
He was enshrined in the
Cuban Baseball Hall of Fame
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in 1963. He died in his home city of Havana at age 85.
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1892 births
1978 deaths
Almendares (baseball) players
Baseball players from Havana
Boston Red Sox players
Club Fé players
Cuban expatriate baseball players in the United States
Cuban Stars (East) players
Cuban Stars (West) players
Habana players
Long Branch Cubans players
Major League Baseball players from Cuba
Major League Baseball second basemen
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