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Fernando Valenzuela
Mexican baseball player (1960–2024)
For the Spanish marquis and grandee, see Fernando de Valenzuela, 1st Marquis of Villasierra.
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Valenzuela and the second or maternal family name is Anguamea.
Baseball player
| Fernando Valenzuela | |
|---|---|
Valenzuela in 1986 | |
| Pitcher | |
| Born:(1960-11-01)November 1, 1960 Etchohuaquila, Sonora, Mexico | |
| Died: October 22, 2024(2024-10-22) (aged 63) Los Angeles, California, U.S. | |
| September 15, 1980, for the Los Angeles Dodgers | |
| July 14, 1997, for the St. Louis Cardinals | |
| Win–loss record | 173–153 |
| Earned run average | 3.54 |
| Strikeouts | 2,074 |
| Stats at Baseball Reference | |
| Induction | 2014 |
Fernando Valenzuela Anguamea (Latin American Spanish pronunciation:[feɾˈnandoβalenˈswela]; November 1, 1960 – October 22, 2024), nicknamed "El Toro", was a Mexican professional baseballpitche
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How Dodgers Legend Fernando Valenzuela Inspired a Wave of Songs by Mexican Artists Amid ‘Fernandomania’
Conjunto Michoacan, the veteran Regional Mexican group known for its ranchera and norteño ballads, released “El Corrido de Fernando Valenzuela,” about the late star Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Fernando Valenzuela, in 1981. But the group didn’t do it because everybody was doing it — even though, in the early ’80s, everybody was. “We knew of a few other songs, but were not really inspired by them, because we were focused on what we were doing,” recalls Alejandro Saucedo Garcia, the group’s violinist for 40 years. “He was the king of baseball and everybody in Mexico loved him.”
“El Corrido de Fernando Valenzuela,” the group’s 1981 single, was one of many musical tributes that dominated Mexico and Los Angeles while “El Toro” was racking up hundreds of strikeouts and winning in the
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Essay: The Dodgers are retiring Fernando’s No. 34. These songs honor his legacy
In 1981, when Fernandomania first swept the country, I was 7, ignorant about the controversy surrounding Chavez Ravine or the Dodgers’ keen financial interest in finding a player to attract disaffected Latino fans. inom only knew that inom loved baseball and that my father, a Mexican immigrant, had once been really good at it.
In Fernando Valenzuela, I saw a composite of family members. He didn’t look like an athlete and my father didn’t either. Instead, Fernando sort of resembled my Tío Armando, my father’s youngest Chihuahua cousin, who sported a similar mullet as well as my father’s hand-me-down Budweiser shorts.
Fernando has been the subject of at least three documentaries, so his story is surely familiar. He went undefeated in his first eight pitching starts, a feat that had been unmatched in fyra decades, and he remains the only MLB pitcher to win the Rookie of the Year and Cy ung awards in the