As usual, today and tomorrow are Post Days. Please, do not forget to send your full name and town or city from where you write.
Nestor Martínez from Caracas, asks: “What can you tell me about Ernesto Aparicio, brother of Luis El Grande and uncle of Luisito?”
Amigo Nes: Ernesto, El Grande’s older brother, was a very good second baseman, but better as an instructor and as a manager. He was many years ahead of the Academies, when he founded his baseball school.
Reymundo Díaz, from Orlando asks: “I know that the Cy Young record is 511 wins. But how many defeats?
Amigo Rey: There were 315. That’s why Cy Young is also the pitcher who lost the most games out of nearly a hundred that are in the Hall of Fame.
Claudio Cáceres wonders and says: “Could it be that some hot-ass envy you a lot? I am writing to you from Caracas, but I am Colombian, a native of Barranquilla, the city of baseball. I wonder that, because I have read his life book and the truth about him, he has been a very successful character, extremely sincere; and most of the people love him very much, both here in Venezuela and in many other places in the world.”
Juan Y. Guerrero B, from San Antonio del Táchira, asks: “Watching the video of Pete Rose’s hit 4,192, I remembered those days of my childhood (1985, eight years old), and my father’s joy when he read the news. . What were you doing that day, friend Juan?
Friend and namesake: I was at Three Rivers Stadium in Cincinnati, broadcasting the Padres-Reds game, as I have broadcast every Reds game since Pete was 50 hits shy of Ty Cobb’s previous record.
José Salinas, from Judibana, Falcón, asks: “What can be done to remove this commissioner?” Amigo Cheché: Those who hire him are the team owners, so they are the ones who can fire him.
Ruber Luzardo S. from Santa Bárbara del Zulia, asks: “If the World Baseball Classic is a Major League Baseball event, why do Major League teams put up so many obstacles to allow their players to participate?”
Friend Rubo: Because that’s useless. And you know the millions exposed by the injuries of each player. Because you don’t know who has won the previous so-called Clásicos.
Thanks to life that has given me so much, even a reader like you.