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Aramis Ramirez: Definitely Dominican

By Eamonn BrennanFeb 19th 2008 – 2:40PM

It's old news now: Pedro Martinez and Juan Marichal show up on some bootleg cockfighting video; Martinez and Marichal take their PR hits, PETA promises a protest, and everyone moves on. It's like clockwork. But then Aramis Ramirez had to go and up the ante. Who needs to get caught at a cockfight when you can say you're...

Pedro Martinez, Juan Marichal and a Cockfight

By PostmanRFeb 6th 2008 – 7:53PM

So here's a pretty tremendous video find by the crew at Home Run Derby: it's Pedro Martinez and Juan Marichal starting off a cockfight in their native country of the Dominican Republic. (Note: video has been taken off YouTube. Wonder why?)Now, yes: cockfighting really isn't cool. After all, it is pitting gamecocks against...

Juan Marichal News From the Web

  • 05/23/12 High and Tight: Our Rock & Roll Baseball Experts on... Source: Rolling Stone Thirty-six years ago this week, Red Sox pitcher Bill Lee – a free-spirited and outspoken cat dubbed "The Spaceman" for his out-there ways – found himself in a bizarre predicament, even by his own inimitable standards.
  • 05/15/12 MLB Notebook: Friedrich joins elite crew Source: MLB Juan Marichal, the Hall of Fame right-hander who plied his trade for 16 seasons and accumulated enough awe-inspired gasps with his performances and delivery to fill a room in Cooperstown, made his big league debut on July 19, 1960, and wowed his home crowd at San Francisco's Candlestick Park by striking out 12 and walking just one batter in a one-hit shutout.
  • 05/02/12 Sports violence: NFL hands out latest punishments Source: The Washington Times - Washington DC Violence is part of the game in many sports.
  • 04/19/12 MLB Notebook: Lee, Cain have duel for ages Source: MLB On May 26, 1966, the San Francisco Giants and Philadelphia Phillies tussled for 14 innings and combined for just one run.
  • 04/13/12 Norfolk Admiral Mark Barberio wins Eddie Shore Award... Source: MassLive.com If you want to know the secret of Norfolk's American Hockey League record 25-game winning streak, look to its defense.

Background on Juan Marichal

Juan Antonio Marichal Sánchez (born October 20, 1937 in Laguna Verde, Dominican Republic) is a former right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball.

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