| rdfs:comment | - Luis Aparicio was a major league baseball player and Hall of Famer.
- Luis Ernesto Aparicio Montel (* 29. Mai 1934 in Maracaibo, Venezuela) ist ein ehemaliger venezolanischer Baseballspieler in der Major League Baseball. Sein Spitzname war Little Louie.
- Aparicio came from a baseball family. His father, Luis Sr. was a notable shortstop in Venezuela and owned a Winter League team with Aparicio's uncle, Ernesto. Aparicio was heavily scouted by the Cleveland Indians, but Chicago White Sox GM Frank Lane, on the recommendation of fellow Venezuelan shortstop Chico Carrasquel, signed Aparicio for $5,000 down and $5,000 in first year salary. He played well in the minors and then led the American League in stolen bases in his debut year of 1956, winning both the MLB Rookie of the Year and The Sporting News Rookie of the Year awards. Frank Robinson of the Cincinnati Redlegs won the NL Rookie Awards - marking the first year that 2 eventual Hall of Famers were BBWAA Rookles of the Year. (Tom Seaver & Rod Carew in 1967 followed suit).
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| abstract | - Luis Aparicio was a major league baseball player and Hall of Famer.
- Aparicio came from a baseball family. His father, Luis Sr. was a notable shortstop in Venezuela and owned a Winter League team with Aparicio's uncle, Ernesto. Aparicio was heavily scouted by the Cleveland Indians, but Chicago White Sox GM Frank Lane, on the recommendation of fellow Venezuelan shortstop Chico Carrasquel, signed Aparicio for $5,000 down and $5,000 in first year salary. He played well in the minors and then led the American League in stolen bases in his debut year of 1956, winning both the MLB Rookie of the Year and The Sporting News Rookie of the Year awards. Frank Robinson of the Cincinnati Redlegs won the NL Rookie Awards - marking the first year that 2 eventual Hall of Famers were BBWAA Rookles of the Year. (Tom Seaver & Rod Carew in 1967 followed suit). Over the next decade, Aparicio set the standard for the spray-hitting, slick-fielding, speedy shortstop. He led the AL in stolen bases in nine consecutive seasons (1956-64) and won the Gold Glove Award nine times (1958-62, 1964, 1966, 1970). He was also a ten-time All-Star (1958-64, 1970-72) and a key player on the 1959 "Go-Go" White Sox that won the American League pennant that year. Aparicio was 2nd to teammate Nellie Fox in the 1959 MVP balloting. The White Sox were generally successful during his tenure, but when he showed up overweight and had an off year in 1962, the White Sox dealt him to the Baltimore Orioles the following season. He led the league in fielding percentage a record 8 consecutive years. Aparicio regained his form in Baltimore and was ninth in the MVP balloting in 1966 when he helped the Orioles reach the World Series, which they won. He returned to the White Sox for the 1968 season after being traded for Don Buford and had his best overall offensive season in 1970, hitting .312 and scoring 86 runs. He put in three more seasons with the Boston Red Sox before retiring for good. He was released by the Boston Red Sox in the spring 1974 (along with Orlando Cepeda) and retired when no other team made him a comparable salary offer. At his retirement, Aparicio was the all-time leader for most games played, assists and double plays by a MLB shortstop and the all-time leader for putouts and total chances by an AL baseball shortstop. Through the 2005 season, Aparicio holds the major league record of 2583 games played in the position. Amazingly, he never played in another position than shortstop. Luis Aparicio was inducted to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1984 (elected with Harmon Killebrew and Don Drysdale), the first native of South America so honored. In 1981, Lawrence Ritter and Donald Honig included him in their book The 100 Greatest Baseball Players of All Time. In 1999, The Sporting News did not include him on their list of the 100 Greatest Baseball Players, but Major League Baseball did list him as one of their 100 nominees for their All-Century Team. He was given the honor of throwing out the ceremonial first pitch at Game One of the 2005 World Series, the first World Series game to be played in Chicago by the Chicago White Sox since the 1959 World Series, when Aparicio had been the starting shortstop for the Sox.
- Luis Ernesto Aparicio Montel (* 29. Mai 1934 in Maracaibo, Venezuela) ist ein ehemaliger venezolanischer Baseballspieler in der Major League Baseball. Sein Spitzname war Little Louie.
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