finalyear bats death_date death_place birth_place debutyear finaldate statvalue position finalteam statlabel debutdate birth_date image article_title debutteam name throws
1952 right 1 september 2003 cancún , quintana roo , mexico alquízar , cuba 1952 september 16 .265 1 40 third baseman chicago white sox batting average home runs runs batted in april 15 13 june 1920 hector rodriguez 1952.jpg héctor rodríguez -lrb- baseball -rrb-
 chicago white sox héctor rodríguez right
héctor rodríguez -lrb- baseball -rrb-

héctor antonio rodríguez ordeñana -lrb- june 13 , 1920 -- september 1 , 2003 -rrb- was a major league baseball third baseman for one season -lrb- -rrb- with the chicago white sox .
his natural position was shortstop , but he had the misfortune to be with the white sox while chico carrasquel played the position , followed by all-time great luis aparicio .
a native of alquízar , cuba , rodríguez played in the negro leagues with the new york cubans , 1939 and 1944 , and in the mexican league , 1945 -- 46 -lrb- riley , 676 -rrb- prior to the integration of organized baseball , before the 1951 season , rodríguez was acquired by the brooklyn dodgers from the tuneros de san luis potosí of the mexican league .
he was assigned to brooklyn 's farm club , the montreal royals , where he batted .302 .
on december 6 of that same year he was traded by the dodgers to the chicago white sox for first baseman rocky nelson .
rodríguez was chicago 's regular third baseman during the 1952 season .
he appeared in 124 games for the 81 -- 73 white sox and hit .265 with 1 home run and 40 runs batted in .
he drew 47 walks and was hit by pitches 3 times , raising his on-base percentage to .346 .
he stole 7 bases , scored 55 runs , and struck out just 22 times in 407 at bats , making him the seventh-toughest to strike out in the american league .
-lrb- once per every 18.5 at bats -rrb- defensively , his .959 fielding percentage was just above the league average for third basemen .
rodríguez went back to the minor leagues in 1953 , and on october 8 of that year was traded to the toronto maple leafs of the international league for pitcher don johnson .
while rodríguez never again made it back to the big league level , he had an outstanding career with the toronto maple leafs when they were the top-drawing team in the international league during the 1950s .
he teamed with second baseman mike goliat to turn spectacular double plays .
rodríguez was so good at the position , the white sox sent a film crew to toronto to record his skill at turning double plays to be used in training their minor league shortstops .
he was renowned for his underhand flip throws from deep in the hole between shortstop and third base , a throw not seen in toronto until tony fernandez played shortstop for the american league toronto blue jays in the 1990s .
rodríguez died at the age of 83 in cancún , quintana roo , mexico .
