Leonardo Briones Rodríguez (1 July 1929 – 16 August 2011) was a Mexican professional baseball player notable for his time in the

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 ...

. Rodríguez's playing career began in 1949 and ended in 1971. He debuted in 1949 with Unión Laguna de Torreón and won the Rookie of the Year Award. He was elected to the

Mexican Professional Baseball Hall of Fame The Salón de la Fama del Beisbol Mexicano (in English, Mexican Professional Baseball Hall of Fame), commonly called the Salón de la Fama (Hall of Fame) is a baseball hall of fame and museum located in Monterrey, Nuevo León, inaugurated on 10 ...

in 1980. He was born in

Tlahualilo Municipality Tlahualilo is a municipality in the Mexican state of Durango. The municipal seat A municipal seat (Spanish: ; ) is the administrative center and seat of government of a municipality or civil parish, with other villages or towns subordinat ...

Mexico Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in North America. It is the northernmost country in Latin America, and borders the United States to the north, and Guatemala and Belize to the southeast; while having maritime boundar ...

and died on 16 August 2011.

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1929 births 2011 deaths Algodoneros de Unión Laguna players Diablos Rojos del México players Columbus Jets players Hollywood Stars players Mexican Baseball Hall of Fame inductees Mexican expatriate baseball players in the United States Mexican League Rookie of the Year Award winners Minor league baseball players Naranjeros de Hermosillo managers Sportspeople from Durango {{Mexico-baseball-bio-stub