Fernando Valenzuela
name: label: Associated Name
content: Valenzuela, Fernando
label: Associated Name
content: Los Angeles Dodgers
notes: label: Description
content: Left-handed pitcher Fernando Valenzuela (b.1960) played Major League Baseball from 1980-1991 and from 1993-1997. Valenzuela spent his first ten years with the Los Angeles Dodgers where he was a six-time All-Star. In 1981 the Mexican born hurler won both the NL Rooke of the Year and Cy Young honors, helping lead the Dodgers to that year’s World Series title. En route he became a fan and media favorite, generating a phenomenon dubbed <i>Fernandomania </i>.
label: Description
content: After the Dodgers, Valenzuela played for the California Angels (1991), Baltimore Orioles (1993), Philadelphia Phillies (1994), San Diego Padres (1995-1997) and St. Louis Cardinals (1997). Finishing his career with a 173-153 win-loss record, he compiled a lifetime 3.54 era and 2,074 strikeouts. Valenzuela was one of the best hitting pitchers of his generation, earning two Silver Slugger Awards.
label: Description
content: In 2019 Valenzuela’s number 34 was retired from the Mexican Baseball League. In 2015 he became a U.S. Citizen.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: web subject
content: Sports
label: Subject
content: Baseball
label: Subject
content: Latinos and Baseball
label: Subject
content: Mexicans
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content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Randall Martinez
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2019.0197.01
label: catalog number
content: 2019.0197.01
label: accession number
content: 2019.0197
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Signed Baseball
label: Object Name
content: autographed baseball
label: Object Name
content: baseball, signed
label: Object Name
content: baseball
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: black; white; red (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: sphere (overall shape)
label: Physical Description
content: cork; cotton; polyester (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 in; 7.62 cm