Eduardo Rodríguez Reyes 'Volanta''(March 6, 1952 – March 6, 2009) was a Puerto Rican professional baseball

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. He played in

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from through for the

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(1973–78) and

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(1979), mostly as a

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. He also pitched in the

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for the Criollos de Caguas and

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. Listed at and , Rodríguez batted and threw

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. He was born in

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. In a seven-season career, Rodríguez posted a 42–36 record with a 3.89

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and 32 saves in 264 appearances, including 39 starts, one

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and seven

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s, giving up 317 earned runs on 681 hits and 323 walks while

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430 in 734 innings of work. As a hitter, Rodríguez belted a triple (and scored on an error) in his first and only at bat, joining Chuck Lindstrom (1958), Scott Munninghoff (1980), and Eric Cammack (2000) as the only players to accomplish this feat in major league history. Rodríguez died at his Barceloneta home of a heart attack on his 57th birthday.Obituary
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