But the players still have many strong similarities.
Tony perez ball on roof.
He played with the cincinnati reds montreal expos and philadelphia phillies of the national league and the boston red sox of the american league.
The cuban native also felt considerable pride in earning a place alongside his fellow latin american standouts roberto clemente and orlando cepeda of puerto rico.
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Tony perez cuban born professional baseball player in the united states for 23 years.
And tony would get shoved in the background driving in his 100 runs every.
Exceeded rookie limits during 1965 season agents.
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Obviously tony was a stocky muscular righthanded batter and mcgriff was a tall lefthanded slugger.
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Tony pérez derived more than a sense of satisfaction after his home run off catfish hunter broke a 15th inning tie and propelled the national league to a 2 1 triumph over the american league in the 1967 all star game.
One of the national pastime s great run producers atanacio tony pérez rigal was among the best when it came to driving in big runs for cincinnati s big red machine of the 1970s.
Both tony perez and fred mcgriff were extremely popular batted cleanup and drove in lots of runs.
Perez who turns age 43 tuesday drilled a 3 2 pitch over the left field wall to snap a 3 3 tie in the sixth inning.
Both were first basemen though tony and the reds danced around third base for a brief period.
Atanacio tony pérez rigal born may 14 1942 is a cuban american former professional baseball player coach and manager he played in major league baseball as a first baseman and third baseman from 1964 through 1986 most notably as a member of the cincinnati reds dynasty that won four national league pennants and two world series championships between 1970 and 1976.
Pete rose would get his 200 hits and johnny bench would do his thing said former pérez teammate pat corrales.
It was his first homer of the season and sixth career slam.
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