Source: notanotherbaseballblog.wordpress.com --- Wednesday, December 27, 2017
Continuing on to Panama, a country between Colombia and Nicaragua which also has a long Baseball tradition. At least 58 Panamanian-born players have played in the majors league. The first was Humberto Robinson , when he pitched a third of an inning for the Milwaukee Braves on April 20, 1955. Hector Lopez started his successful 12 year major league career on May 12, 1955, and Webbo Clarke , who pitched for many years in the Negro Leagues, made all seven of his major league appearances for the Washington Senators in September 1955, following a 16-12 record in the Class A Sally League that year, the same league in which Robinson had won a record-setting 23 games the year before. Both pitchers were long and lean, and Robinson went 8-13 with three saves and a career 3.25 ERA over parts of five major league seasons. It’s likely that both pitched in the Panamanian Professional Baseball League , which played continuously between 1946 and 1972, after their U.S. careers were over. Robinson died in Brooklyn in 2009 at the age of 79, while Clarke died at the relatively young age of 42 back in Panama. Robinson also notably reported a bribe offered in the amount of $1,500 to throw a Baseball game in 1959. The relative success of the PPBL is surely one of the reasons so many Panamanians have played in MLB, despite a population of only 3.75 million currently. The current version of the PPBL, Probeis, has been playing continuously since 2011. 1. ...
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