Luto en pelota por la muerte del exgrandesligas Cuqui Mangual

The exjardinero of the Great Leagues, the boricua Angel “Cuqui” Mangual, failure hoy, martes, en mañana, giving a card to productive career in the best baseball of the world and a family with pedigree deportivo, informs his wife Nilda.

He died 73 years ago at San Lucas de Ponce Hospital. Le sobreviven su esposa Nilda y sus hijos Walter, Rita, Nilda, Nilmarie, Ángel Luis, y Julio. También was also Carlos’ father, who failed miserably.

“It’s sad, but papi vivió orgulloso del barrio La Cuarta, of a deportista family and united. Mami (Nilda) has always been with him and his friends from the Las Delicias urbanization have been living there. Papi was a great human being, with a great courage. “I want to help the people and they can do everything they can with the pilot,” said Nilda.

También le sobreviven cinco hermanos, entre los que se encuentran the national player Miguel Mangual, the national team player Iván ‘Palito’ Mangual and the former ex-league player, José ‘Pepe’ Mangual, informa Nilda. También le sobreviven Rosa y Ivonne.

Have a family with a first-rate sports pedigree.

“I don’t have many families here,” said baseball historian Jossie Alvarado.

Natural and created in the bar La Cuarta between Ponce and Juana Díaz, Mangual played in the Grand Leagues in the 70’s with the Athletics of Oakland and won three World Cup titles with the team. In the 1972 World Cup series before the Cincinnati Reds, Mangual beated 10-3 with an impulsive career and put a protagonist paper in the seventh and decisive game of that series.

“It’s because there are many years and regular flights in Oakland, at critical moments, only in regular series, but also in the postwar period, a protagonist paper. It’s the players that director Dick Williams calls to make it work, ”Alvarado describes.

With 22 years, the gardener made his debut in the Grand Leagues in 1969 with the Pirates of Pittsburgh together with Roberto Clemente y José Pagán. In these teams the gardeners eran Clemente, Mateo Alou y Willie Stargell.

“I (Mangual) accounted for a time when the Pirates called the man who wanted to get to the Clemente airport, that he had a tent to buy the tracks he had used and had to drive the car”, dijo Alvarado.

Founded by the Pirates in 1966, based on the legendary Francisco ‘Pancho’ Coimbre, who was one of the team’s listeners, the former historian Jorge Colón Delgado informs. Hecho, Mangual received two weeks ago the Pancho Coimbre 2021 award, which is on display at the Ponce Museum, which is the number one of the legendary pilots, including Colón Delgado.

The Pirates moved to Mangual in Oakland in the 1970s, starting with the era of three Oakland follow-up champions between 1972 and 1974 together with players like Reggie Jackson, Berto Campaneris y Rollie Fingers.

In the 1971 it was time to take part in the voting for the Novato del Año. The prize I won Chris Chamblis with the Indians of Cleveland.

Mangual played 91 games with the Atletiek champions from 1972. Battery .246 with five jones and 32 impulsed yards and 19 assists. If robó 14 basisse.

In the 1972 World Cup Series, in which he beat 10-3, Mangual scored the first and decisive career of the event that was eventually won 3-2 by Oakland over Cincinnati. Mangual abrió is this party as a second asset and central garden.

Tal vez con por la legada del bateador designated in 1973, Mangual vio acción en solo 74 juegos con los Athletics ese año, aunque consumi 15 turnar entre la Serie de Campeonato que le ganaron a los Orioles de Baltimore en la Serie Mundial en la que vencieron a los Mets de New York del boricua Félix Millán.

Sondeverbod, in el 1974, Mangual vio acción en 115 partidos con los Atletiek. But it consumes five times a day.

His last campaign was in 1976 with Athletics.

“In addition to the three titles of the World Cup series, there were five titles of the Division of the West with Oakland between 1971 and 1975,” said Alvarado.

In total, Mangual is vio acción and siete temporadas. In the three titles of the World Series, classic teams like the Red Cincinnati Machinery that has any members of the Salon of the Family like Johnny Bench, Tany Pérez, Joe Morgan, in addition to Pete Rose. También enfrentó a los Orioles de Baltimore con initiators strellas como Jim Palmer y Mike Cuellar.

It took action in 405 matches, consuming 1,318 turns, 122 innings and 125 innings. It had 22 matches and a score of .245.

He also plays in the professional pelota of Puerto Rico and Mexico. With the Lobos de Arecibo fue líder in triples (7) in the period of 1970-71, following the page of statistics Béisbol101.com.