Al Cabrera
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Alfredo A. Cabrera is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
- 1964) was a major league
Major League Baseball
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shortstop
Shortstop
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. His nickname was Pájaro, which is Spanish for "Bird."
He played his one and only major league game on May 16, 1913. He went a disappointing 0-2 at the plate in that game. However, he did make history as he became the first Spanish-born and also the first and even to this day only Africa
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n-born major leaguer.
Cabrera played in the Cuban League
Cuban League
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from 1901 to 1920 and was elected to the Cuban Baseball Hall of Fame
Cuban Baseball Hall of Fame
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in 1942. He also managed in the Cuban League and won a championship in the winter of 1915/16 as manager of the Almendares team.