Julio Bécquer

Julio Bécquer
Julio Bécquer
	First baseman
	Born: December 20, 1931; Havana, Cuba
	Died: November 1, 2020 (aged 88); Hopkins, Minnesota, U.S.
	Batted: Left Threw: Left
MLB debut
	September 13, 1955, for the Washington Senators
Last MLB appearance
	September 18, 1963, for the Minnesota Twins
MLB statistics
Batting average	.244
Home runs	12
Runs batted in	114
Teams
	Washington Senators (1955, 1957–1960); Los Angeles Angels (1961); Minnesota Twins (1961, 1963);

Julio Bécquer Villegas (December 20, 1931 – November 1, 2020) was a Cuban-born American professional baseball player, a first baseman who played in 488 games over seven seasons (1955; 1957–61; 1963) for the Washington Senators / Minnesota Twins and Los Angeles Angels of Major League Baseball. A native of Havana, he batted and threw left-handed; Bécquer stood 5 feet 11 inches (1.80 m) tall and weighed 178 pounds (81 kg) during his active career.

Bécquer attended the

runs batted in (35). At the expansion draft

that followed in December, he was left unprotected and was taken as the 49th player selected by the new Los Angeles Angels franchise.

For the

ninth inning.^[1]

Bécquer spent all of 1962, and most of

MLB pension.^[2] Bécquer's only big-league appearance in 1963, his last in the majors, came when he pinch-ran for catcher Earl Battey September 18, and scored his final MLB run.^[3] Altogether, Bécquer notched 238 hits, including 37 doubles, 16 triples, 12 homers and 114 RBI, batting .244 lifetime. He finished his career with a .993 fielding percentage

at first base.

Bécquer retired from the game after the 1964 minor-league season and lived in Minneapolis. He died from COVID-19 at an assisted living facility in Hopkins, on November 1, 2020, at the age of 88.^[4]^[5]