Arturo Antonio Rodríguez (born 1915), nicknamed "Pollo", was a Cuban

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and

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in the

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and

Mexican League The Mexican Baseball League (, or LMB, ) is a professional baseball league in Mexico. It is the oldest running professional sports league in the country. The league has 20 teams organized in two divisions, North and South. Teams play 114 games ...

. A native of

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. He went on to play for the

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in , and played in the

into the mid-1940s.

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