Perez became the fifth player in the history of the Venezuelan Leagues to break the 1000 hit mark. Davalillo is the alltime leader at 1505. The first Venezuelan to play in the majors was Alex Carrasquel, a pitcher for Washington.
I believe that Andruw Jones has taken home a lot of Hensley Meulens Awards.
ya gotta love a Hensley "Bam-Bam" Meulens mention! there were two other ballplayers from curacao, methinks. randall simon of the milwaukee sausage race infamy and a tiger - gene kingsale, or something like that...
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