Francisco Libran Rosas is a retired Puerto Rican

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 professional baseball

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 player. A shortstop

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, he appeared in ten games for the San Diego Padres

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 of Major League Baseball

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. Libran threw and batted right-handed, and was listed at 6 ft (1.8 m) tall and 168 lb (76.2 kg).

Libran was initially signed by the Chicago Cubs

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 in 1968 and spent that season split between two Class A Cub affiliates. The following April 25, while a member of the Cubs' Double-A San Antonio Missions

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 team, he was traded to the Padres (then in their maiden season as expansion team

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 in the Major Leagues) with pitcher

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s Joe Niekro

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 and Gary Ross

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 for pitcher Dick Selma

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. He remained with the Missions all season and was added to the San Diego roster after September 1. In his debut game, Libran went hitless

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 in two at bats against Woodie Fryman

Woodie Fryman

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 of the Philadelphia Phillies

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. Thirteen days later, he collected his only Major League hit, an RBI double

Double (baseball)

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 off Tom Griffin

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 of the Houston Astros

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.

He played two more years of minor league baseball

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 before leaving the game after the 1971 campaign.

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