The old man and Teddy Ballgame

"He (Connie Marrero) throws you everything but the ball. You see him out there warming up and you want to grab a bat quick and hit against him. When you get there, he has you groping for that knuckle ball. You got to swing at his first pitch. You let him get ahead of you on the count and you're dead." - Ted Williams.

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Conrado Eugenio (Ramos) Marrero’s first game, April 25, 1951, Washington Senators, he was 38 years old. In five years with the Senators, Marrero pitched 735 innings, 669 in his first four years. That’s ages 38-43. He was an All Star his second year.

Marrero’s record was 39-40, 3.67 ERA. Of 94 games started, he completed 51. He pitched seven shutouts. He was named to the Cuban Baseball Hall of Fame in 1977. He died April 23, 2014, in Havana, two days before his 103rd birthday.

"Connie Marrero had a windup that looked like a cross between a windmill gone berserk and a mallard duck trying to fly backwards." - Felipe Alou (Peter C. Bjarkman, SABR Baseball Biography Project, 'Connie Marrero', Source)

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