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- Omar Linares Izquierdo (born October 23, 1968) is a Cuban former professional baseball third baseman, first baseman and coach.
- Omar Linares is widely considered the best third baseman found anywhere in the world outside of the US major leagues during much of the 1980s and 1990s.
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It has been said that Omar Linares is the greatest ballplayer from Cuba to have ever played the game. If you ask the fanaticos down at the Esquina Caliente, they will tell you that he is the best in the world.
“Omar Linares is the best amateur player in the world. He has all the tools. He is fast, a strong arm, power, and above all has a great temperament for the game” – Pinar del Rio manager Jorge Fuentes, 1991.
Omar Linares se encuentra a la sombra de ningún jugador de béisbol.
Translastion: Omar Linares stands in the shadow of no baseball player.
This is a phrase commonly used in Cuba when discussing Omar Linares Izquierdo (born October 23, 1967 in Pinar del Río, Cuba), the greatest ballplayer to ever play on the international stage. Linares, son of former national team fixture and all-star Fidel Linares, began to play baseball when he was still in diapers. He burst onto the Cuban baseball scene at the age of 15, playing for the now-defunct Vegueros, based in Pinar del Rio. Because of his young age he was quickly given the nickname &#
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Omar Linares
Omar Linares is widely considered the best third baseman found anywhere in the world outside of the U.S. major leagues during much of the 1980s and 1990s. What Josh Gibson, Buck Leonard or Satchel Paige may have been to the first half of the 20th Century (potential national sporting icons barred from the big-league stage by racial politics), “El Niño” Linares similarly was to the century’s final decades (a sure-fire big-league star kept from baseball’s biggest stage by the fallout from Cold War politics). But the truly significant difference was that while Paige or Gibson would have jumped at the chance to be big leaguers yet had no power over their unjust exclusion, Linares repeatedly turned his back on big-league offers and personally chose to cast his lot with the Cuban socialist baseball system he so visibly represented and championed for two full decades.
Of course Linares’s decision came with a huge plus-minus factor. Cuba’s best modern-era player today remains at one and the same time both a true icon on his native island and a virtual unknown to North Ame
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Omar Linares was considered the greatest Cuban baseball player of the late 1980s and 1990s, and many Major League scouts considered him the world’s pre-eminent third baseman in that era. Linares won gold medals at the 1992 and 1996 Olympics, adding a silver in 2000. With Cuba being dominant in amateur baseball in that era, Linares also won gold medals at the Pan American Games (1991, 1995, 1999), Goodwill Games (1990), and the World Cup (1994, 2001).
In his career in Series Nacionale, Linares batted .368 with 404 homers and 246 steals over a 20-year career. Linares led the Cuban league in walks six times, batting average four times, RBIs four times, and triples once. In the twilight of his career, Linares was allowed to play in Japan, but due to age, he struggled there. He came along too soon to be allowed to play Major League Baseball in the United States, although every team drooled at the thought of getting him into their line-up. Many baseball experts feel he should be the first Cuban player to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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