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Among the native Cubans on the 1960 Sugar Kings roster, Leo Cardenas, Miguel Cuellar, Orlando Pena and others were all destined to be future big leaguers. A number of additional stellar players with professional prospects (Pedro Ramos, Camilo Pascual, Tony Oliva, Zoilo Versalles, Luis Tiant, Jr., Bert Campaneris, Cookie Rojas, Jose Tartabull, Tony Taylor, Jose Valdivielso, and Tany Perez, among others) had all departed for the States immediately before or shortly after Castro's forces seized government control in January 1959.

Lombardi, who had led the National League in batting average the year before, said he faced Paige during an exhibition game in Oakland and Paige struck out a number of big leaguers, including him.

Yet, only about 25% of our big leaguers today signed out of high school.

After his performance against UCLA, Horton said "Heineman looked like a big leaguer last weekend in the batter's box."

Saltalamacchia has long been coveted by the Red Sox, and it took his struggles with throwing the ball back to the pitcher to drop his value to the Rangers enough for them to acquire him.0x20 Saltalamacchia condition, which is comparable to the difficulty former big leaguer Mackey Sasser endured during his career.

Gomez stated: "He was he guy who taught us what it meant to be a big leaguer. He taught us what it meant to be a Yankee.

Ripley, in his syndicated "Believe It Or Not" of September 5, 1931, informed the world of former big leaguer Hugh Bedient's feat of striking out 42 men in one game.

Former big leaguer Kirk Nieuwenhuis doesn't like the idea of giving umps veto power.

"It feels like I'm almost a big leaguer right now, I'm loving this.''

"He's going to be a big leaguer some day," Casey said, calling Thompson "tough, tough ...

A new "Player Lock'' feature lets you pick any big leaguer and play multiple seasons as just that guy.

One popular New York-area Latino sports broadcaster has recently taken an even less defensible position by raising the claim that Clemente was not the first Latin American in the big leagues, or perhaps not even the most noteworthy Hispanic big leaguer of integrated baseball's first full decade.

"I think that physically, Steve has shown that he hits the ball like a big leaguer," Gardner said.

Columbia's first big leaguer of note was also one of the formative figures in the sport and in the earliest labor movements among professional baseball players: 47-game winner, Hall of Fame member, and Columbia law school graduate John Montgomery Ward.