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Place of Birth: Carúpano, Sucre, Venezuela
About Gonzalo Márquez
- Gonzalo Enrique Márquez Moya (March 31, 1940 – December 19, 1984) was a Venezuelan professional baseball player.
- He played as a first baseman in Major League Baseball for the Oakland Athletics (1972–73) and Chicago Cubs (1973–74).
- Although baseball references during his career (and afterwards) showed the year of his birth as 1946, his birth certificate showed the true year to be 1940.
- Márquez presented an ID that showed 1946 when he turned professional.Márquez was a left-handed batter, hitting .235 (27-for-115) with one home run, 10 runs batted in, nine runs, three doubles and one stolen base in 76 games.
- However, his skill as a contact hitter was visible in the postseason.
- In eight playoff and World Series games in 1972, he hit 5-for-8 for a .625 BA with two RBIs and one run scored.
- He's still well remembered by the Oakland fans for his contribution off the bench.
- Marquez was also known as a fine fielder at first base.
- On May 5, 1973, against the Cleveland Indians, he became the last left-handed player to be listed in the lineup card as a second baseman in a major-league game.
- He did not appear in the field at second, though. Márquez enjoyed a long career at home in the Venezuelan Winter League, nearly all of it with the Leones del Caracas club.
- He compiled a record of .288 with 16 homers and 295 RBI in 833 games, from 1965 to 1984.
- In the 1970 Caribbean Series, he led all players with a .440 batting average and 4 stolen bases, to help the Navegantes del Magallanes win the series, marking the first time a Venezuelan team had taken the title. Gonzalo Márquez was killed in a car accident as he was returning home from a baseball game in Valencia with two of his sons.
- He and the boys stopped for a roast pork sandwich at a nationally known roadside eatery, but another car prevented them from leaving the parking lot.
- Once Marquez did get back out onto the road, a drunk driver struck his car.
- Marquez died (though the two boys survived).
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