Robert Chance is a former professional baseball

Baseball

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 player who played 6 seasons for the Cleveland Indians

Cleveland Indians

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, Washington Senators

Texas Rangers (baseball)

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, and California Angels

Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim

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 of Major League Baseball

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Chance played two seasons in Japan for the Atoms

Tokyo Yakult Swallows

is a professional baseball team in Japan's Central League.The Swallows are named after their corporate owners, the Yakult Corporation. From 1950 to 1965, the team was owned by the former Japanese National Railways and called the Kokutetsu Swallows; the team was then owned by the newspaper Sankei...

. He also played in the Puerto Rican Professional Baseball League

Puerto Rican Professional Baseball League

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 with Leones de Ponce

Leones de Ponce (baseball)

This article is about the Ponce baseball team. For the basketball team of the same name, see Ponce Lions .The Leones de Ponce are a baseball team in the Puerto Rico Baseball League. The organization is based in the municipality of Ponce, Puerto Rico. The team plays at the Francisco Montaner Stadium...

during the 1961-62 season. A powerful slugger, he recorded the longest home run in Puerto Rican history, an estimated 600-foot shot to right field.

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