Email this to a friend. Quiroz's father, mother, and little sister flew in from Maracaibo, Venezuela, where the senior Quiroz is a dental technician. The family arrived at Yeager Airport less than three hours before game time. I haven't seen them since Feb. 18. That was when he reported to Florida for spring training.
Baseball runs in the family.
His grandfather even serves as president of a tee- ball league. Playing in his fourth city in his third seasons since signing as a free agent in 1998, Quiroz finds the presence of his family a stabilizing influence. My father has watched me all of the time since I was 3 years old. Quiroz and the rest of the Cats used some rarely seen timely hitting to offset another raggedy night in the field. Combined with Charleston's three errors, the Shorebirds took a 4-0 lead in the second inning.