There were 1,950 stories in La Selección. Jesús Ayala is one of them—and for those of us interested in the league’s early history, a particularly funny one.
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Sánchez, José
Someone’s got to be the first to do everything, and 39-year-old José Sánchez, taken in the 12th round by the Vaqueros, did not let the chance pass him by.
1871: La Selección
When teams can only rely on very, very basic factors—size, speed, strength, stamina, and “smarts”—to decide which players to sign, interesting things happen.
1871: Ingenieros de Rincón
Some teams—admittedly, very few—went into the first season of the LNP with an idea of what they were doing. Then there’s the Ingenieros de Rincón.
1872: La Paliza
When a single baseball game enters history, either something has gone very well, or something has gone very badly. Remarkably, this game features both.