Reggie Otero

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In this
Spanish name, the first or paternal surname
is Otero and the second or maternal family name is Gómez.
Reggie Otero
Otero in 1963.
First baseman
Born: (1915-09-07)September 7, 1915
Havana, Cuba
Died: October 21, 1988(1988-10-21) (aged 73)
Hialeah, Florida, U.S.
Batted: Left
Threw: Right
MLB debut
September 2, 1945, for the Chicago Cubs
Last MLB appearance
September 29, 1945, for the Chicago Cubs
MLB statistics
Batting average.391
Home runs0
Runs batted in5
Teams
Member of the Venezuelan
Baseball Hall of Fame
Induction2009

Regino José Otero Gómez (September 7, 1915 – October 21, 1988) was a

minor leagues in the United States (1936–53), and played briefly with the Chicago Cubs of Major League Baseball in 1945. He also played 13 years in the Cuban Professional League
.

A left-handed batting

MLB
clubs for more than a decade.

Playing career

Born in

Albany Senators that year, but hit only .111. The following year he returned to the Senators but still had trouble, hitting .136 with 0 HR and 3 RBI. In 1938 he moved south to the St. Augustine Saints (Florida State League
). There he hit .308, still with 0 HR, but with 52 RBI.

Otero played for the

Utica Braves of the Can-Am League, in 1942, where he led the league in batting with a .364 average, 2 HR and 101 RBI. Inactive in 1943, Otero moved west in 1944, playing for the Los Angeles Angels of the Pacific Coast League
. At the end of the 1945 season he was called up to the Chicago Cubs, after hitting .344 with 23 RBI, following a .306-0-54 season.

Otero appeared in 14 games for the Cubs, making his debut on September 2, 1945. He had 9 hits in 23 at-bats, good for a .391 average with 5 RBI. This was his only major league experience. He returned to the Angels for the 1946 and 1947 seasons. Otero could not continue to put up those numbers and hit only .273-1-46, and then .231-0-7 in the following year. After the 1947 season, he joined the

minor leagues
.

In his homeland, Otero played in 480 games in the Cuban Professional League for thirteen years from 1936 to 1953. He began his career with the Club Acción Republicana before joining Habana (1936–37), Santa Clara (1939–40), Cienfuegos and Almendares (1945–46) and then the Havana Reds of the Cuban National Federation before returning to Cienfuegos, where he played for seven years from 1947 to 1953. Otero hit .242 in the Cuban league with 499 hits in 2068 at-bats with 177 RBI.

Manager, coach and scout

After his playing career ended, Otero managed the

Venezuelan League. There he led the Industriales de Valencia to three titles (1955–56, 1957–58, 1958–59) and the Leones del Caracas
to four titles (1961–62, 1963–64, 1966–67, 1967–68). His seven championships are the most in the league's history.

In Major League Baseball, he served as a

Cleveland Indians (1966). In 1967, he became a scout, working for Cleveland and the Los Angeles Dodgers
into the 1980s.

Otero died of a heart attack in Hialeah, Florida, on October 21, 1988.

See also

References

This article is based on the article "Reggie Otero" at Baseball-Reference.com's Bullpen, accessed November 7, 2006. The Bullpen is a wiki and its content is available under the GNU Free Documentation License.

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Sporting positions
Preceded by Cincinnati Reds third base coach
1959–1964 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Cincinnati Reds first base coach
1965 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
Cleveland Indians first base coach

1966 		Succeeded by
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