Diego Rincones Let's His Hands Do the Talking
Photo Credit: Trey Wilson | Richmond Flying Squirrels
The love of baseball is handed down through the generations. Thus it has ever been. Diego Rincones grew up Bolivar City in Venezuela, where the game of baseball has long held the nation in its enticing grip. But for Rincones, his love of the sport was directly attributable to one man, his grandfather Tulio, who talked the game to Diego and watched the game with Diego and instilled his love of the game into Diego.
Their favorite player? A Venezuelan, of course. But more than that, too. Andres Galarraga, five time All Star, perennial MVP candidate, and for decades holder of the record for most home runs in a single season by a Venezuelan player (eclipsed in recent years by both Eugenio Suarez and Sal Perez), is a childhood hero to many of this generation of Venezuelan-born players. But for Diego and Tulio, it was also important that the “Big Cat” had been raised by his grandparents, too. Bonds of family; bonds of baseball.
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