Biographical elements of Dominican

SOFTBALL athletes

Ramon Dorciné Valverde

Ramón Dorciné Valverde. Softball player who was a member of

the national team that won the gold medal in the Central
American and Caribbean Games held in 1986 in Santiago,
Dominican Republic.
He was born in 1957 in the Dominican Republic, in a humble
home, son of the couple Donatilo Valverde (deceased) and Elena
Dorciné, his brothers Bienvenido, Ricardo, Antonio, Martín and
Oliva Valverde Dorciné. He married Quisqueya Morales. It was
her second marriage and she raised three stepsons (Katerin,
Masiel and Yovani. In his first marriage he had procreated María
Elena, Arvileni, Margarita and Ramón. For more than 15 years
Dorciné Valverde belonged to the national softball team. He was
a renowned pitcher for the Dominican team.
He began in the discipline in 1979 with the Navy team and the
Sports Games of the Armed Forces and the National Police. In
1983 he was part of the Dominican delegation that participated in
the Pan American Games in Caracas, Venezuela. In 1986 he was
one of the key pieces of the national men's softball team that won
the gold medal in the Central American and Caribbean Games,
which were held in the city of Santiago, Dominican Republic.

Jose Armando Castillo

José Armando Castillo (born José Armando Cipriano Castillo,

April 2, 1950 in Villa González, Dominican Republic) known in
sports as El Mago, is a baseball and pinwheel softball pitcher
retired from the Dominican National Team. He has been a softball
gold medalist in several Central American and Caribbean Games.
He was a national softball coach and has been chosen as Softball
Player of the Century and exalted to the Corridor of Meritorious
Athletes of Santiago by the Association of Sports Writers of
Santiago. In 2016 he was inducted into the Santiago Sports Hall
of Fame, by the permanent committee for the exaltation of
athletes of Santiago (Sports Fame Committee). Index
Although one might think that the nickname El Mago came from
his exceptional mastery of throwing, this nickname nevertheless
came from a popular Dominican belief that says that people
whose parents die before they are born have the ability to heal.
mouth and lip sores in children, simply by blowing on the
affected child's lips. Because José Armando's father died before
he was born and since it was verified that children healed when
José Armando politely blew on them, he always received the
aforementioned nickname of The Magician. José Armando
himself has said that, although he was not personally
superstitious, they always brought him children so that he could
“praise” them in this way.
Biographical elements of Dominican
BASEBALL athletes

Juan Marichal

Juan Antonio Marichal Sánchez (Laguna Verde, Montecristi,

October 20, 19371) is a former Dominican pitcher who played in
Major League Baseball (MLB). Nicknamed El Dandy Dominicano
although he was later known as Manico and El Monstruo de la
Laguna Verde. He played for the San Francisco Giants for most of
his career, Marichal was known for his raising of his left leg when
throwing, which he used as a control tactic and intimidation.
Marichal also played for the Boston Red Sox and Los Angeles
Dodgers in the final two seasons of his career. Although he won
more games than any other pitcher in the 1960s, he appeared in
only one World Series and was overshadowed by often by Sandy
Koufax and Bob Gibson in postseason awards. Marichal was
inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1983.

Juan Marichal's style was recognized as one of the best pitching

positions in modern baseball, with a high kick with his left leg
placed almost vertically (even more than Warren Spahn).
Marichal maintained this way of throwing for throughout his
career, photographs taken before his retirement show that the
vertical kick only slightly diminishes as a result. Stance was the
key to his throws in that he was always able to hide the type of
throw until he released the ball.

Pedro Martínez
Pedro Jaime Martínez (Manoguayabo, October 25, 1971) is a
former Dominican pitcher who played in Major League Baseball
(MLB) for 17 seasons for five teams, developing most of his
career with the Boston Red Sox. He is an eight-time All-Star,
three-time Cy Young winner and 2004 World Series champion. At
the time of his 200th victory in April 2006, Martínez had the
highest winning percentage for a 350-game starting pitcher in
modern baseball history. Elected January 6, 2015 in the Class of
2015 to the Cooperstown Hall of Fame. On July 26, 2015, he was
inducted into the Cooperstown Hall of Fame of the Major
Leagues in his first year of eligibility along with great stars that
year: Randy Johnson, John Smoltz and Craig Biggio.

On April 13, 1994, in his second start with the Montreal Expos,
Martinez lost a perfect game with one out in the eighth inning
when he hit Cincinnati's Reggie Sanders with a pitch. A furious
Sanders walked to the pitcher's mound and was then ridiculed by
the press, as there was no reason for a pitcher in the middle of a
perfect game to want to intentionally hit a batter. Martínez
allowed a single in the ninth inning, breaking his no-hitter, and
was thrown out by reliever John Wetteland (who loaded the
bases and received two sacrifice flies, which meant two runs and
a no-decision for Martínez).14 Three years later, in 1997,
Martínez again had another game with only one single allowed
against the Cincinnati Reds, that only single hit by the Reds was
in the fifth inning.15