Английская Википедия:Elio Chacón
Шаблон:Family name hatnote Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Infobox baseball biography Elio Chacón Rodríguez (October 26, 1936 – April 24, 1992) was a Major League Baseball second baseman and shortstop who played in the National League from 1960 to 1962. He was the seventh baseball player from Venezuela to play in the majors.
Early baseball career
Born in Caracas, Chacón was listed as Шаблон:Convert tall and Шаблон:Convert. He threw and batted right-handed. Chacón hit .265 as a reserve second baseman with the Шаблон:Mlby NL champion Cincinnati Reds, starting 34 games during the season. In Game 2 of the 1961 World Series, Chacón hit a key bloop single against New York Yankees pitcher Ralph Terry, and scored the winning run in the Reds' only victory in the series.
Immediately after the World Series, on October 10, the 1961 MLB expansion draft to stock the newborn Houston Colt .45s and New York Mets was conducted in Cincinnati. After he was selected by New York with the fourth overall pick during the draft's regular phase, Chacón was the Mets' first candidate for the Шаблон:Mlby starting shortstop job. In a May 28 game, Chacón got into a fight with Willie Mays. Chacón was ejected from the game.[1]
'¡La tengo!'
During the 1962 season, New York Mets center fielder Richie Ashburn and Chacón frequently found themselves colliding in the outfield. When Ashburn went for a catch, he would scream, "I got it! I got it!" only to run into the 160-pound Chacón, who spoke only Spanish. Ashburn learned to yell, "¡La tengo! ¡La tengo!" which is "I've got it" in Spanish. In a later game, Ashburn happily saw Chacón backing off. He relaxed, positioned himself to catch the ball, and was instead run over by 200-pound left fielder Frank Thomas, who understood no Spanish and had missed a team meeting that proposed using the words "¡La tengo!" as a way to avoid outfield collisions.[2] After getting up, Thomas asked Ashburn, "What the hell is a Yellow Tango?".[3] The band, Yo La Tengo, gets its name from this baseball anecdote.[4]
He led the Mets in stolen bases in their inaugural season of 1962, but then never appeared in the major leagues again. His professional career continued through 1971. In the majors, Chacón was a .232 career hitter with 143 hits, four home runs, 28 RBI, 49 runs, and 20 stolen bases in 228 games played.
Elio Chacón died in Caracas at the age of 55.
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- ↑ Mets lose fight, pair to Giants
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ Richie Ashburn Remembered by Fran Zimniuch, Sports Publishing LLC, 2005; pp. 41–42.
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
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