Aquel comienzo de 1969 hab\u00c3\u00ada sido muy movido para la pelota venezolana. Magallanes hab\u00c3\u00ada clasificado a la final de cuatro equipos pero hasta all\u00c3\u00ad lleg\u00c3\u00b3. Una vez terminada la temporada hubo m\u00c3\u00a1s movimientos. Magallanes fue vendido a un grupo de Valencia. A medida que pasaron los d\u00c3\u00adas les pregunt\u00c3\u00a9 a mis hermanos qui\u00c3\u00a9n ser\u00c3\u00ada el manager. Me dijeron: Carlos Patato Pascual. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153El mismo que dirigi\u00c3\u00b3 a los Tigres de Aragua la temporada pasada\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, dijo Felipe con cierta esperanza. Jes\u00c3\u00bas Mario mantuvo su habitual escepticismo. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Esperemos que no deje tanto a los pitchers como Napole\u00c3\u00b3n Reyes\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/p>\n
Pascual hab\u00c3\u00ada nacido un 13 de marzo de 1931 en La Habana, Cuba. Jug\u00c3\u00b3 en Grandes Ligas con los Senadores de Washington en 1950. Dej\u00c3\u00b3 marca de 1-1. 2.12 de efectividad. 17 innings lanzados.<\/p>\n
Desde el principio de la temporada 1969-70 se not\u00c3\u00b3 la actitud positiva y voluntariosa del Patato. Era un gran motivador en el dugout. Siempre hablaba con todos sus peloteros. Y ten\u00c3\u00ada un gran tino para mover a los lanzadores y tambi\u00c3\u00a9n a los jugadores de reserva.<\/p>\n
Muchos atribuyen el origen de esta an\u00c3\u00a9cdota a Alfonso Chico Carrasquel y Antonio Armas. Con todo mi respeto por el Chico y Armas, la primera vez que la escuch\u00c3\u00a9 fue cuando le preguntaron a Patato Pascual luego de un juego porqu\u00c3\u00a9 no hab\u00c3\u00ada mandado a tocar a Clarence Gaston y Patato respondi\u00c3\u00b3: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Si quieren ver tocar a Gaston van a tener que comprarle un tambor\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/p>\n
Patato Pascual falleci\u00c3\u00b3 este jueves 12 de mayo de 2011 en Miami, Florida. USA. Luego de una larga enfermedad que se complic\u00c3\u00b3 con neumon\u00c3\u00ada.<\/p>\n
Recuerdo mucho un juego de noviembre de 1969 entre Magallanes y Caracas. Hubo una jugada en la goma despu\u00c3\u00a9s que Magallanes se fue arriba 2-1. El \u00c3\u00a1rbitro sentenci\u00c3\u00b3 out a Gustavo Gil en una jugada muy cerrada. Patato sali\u00c3\u00b3 a discutir en\u00c3\u00a9rgicamente y fue expulsado junto a su coach Leopoldo Tovar. Esa era una de las maneras como Patato motivaba a sus jugadores.<\/p>\n
Cuando Gaston iba a batear, sobre todo hacia finales del juego, Patato se asomaba en el dugout y gritaba \u00e2\u20ac\u0153\u00c2\u00a1Dale un astazo por las costillas para que respeten!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/p>\n
Patato siempre fung\u00c3\u00ada como coach de tercera base en aquella temporada 1969-70. El primer juego de la semifinal los Tigres le dieron una paliza al Magallanes. Cuando los periodistas llegaron al dugout de los Navegantes, lo primero que dijo el Patato fue: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Esto apenas comienza. Ahora es cuando hay Magallanes para rato\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. Y en efecto se desquitaron en el segundo juego. En el tercer partido perd\u00c3\u00adan 3-0 en el quinto inning, con hombres en los \u00c3\u00a1ngulos Patato trajo a Gonzalo M\u00c3\u00a1rquez de emergente por el pitcher Danny Morris y respondi\u00c3\u00b3 con imparable a la izquierda que empuj\u00c3\u00b3 a los corredores para poner el juego 3-2. Ese juego lleg\u00c3\u00b3 3-3 al inning 14 cuando Gregorio Machado, qui\u00c3\u00a9n se hab\u00c3\u00ada mandado un relevo de 10 innings, logr\u00c3\u00b3 embasarse y Gustavo Gil solt\u00c3\u00b3 tripletazo a lo profundo de los jardines. Patato mov\u00c3\u00ada los brazos como aspas de molino en tercera base y corri\u00c3\u00b3 con Machado hasta la goma.<\/p>\n
Luego de vencer a los Tigres en la semifinal Patato declar\u00c3\u00b3 a la prensa: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Ser\u00c3\u00ada injusto se\u00c3\u00b1alar a tal o cual jugador. Todos lucharon y dieron el cien por cien de su esfuerzo. Claro que Jim Holt fue la inspiraci\u00c3\u00b3n por su trabajo ofensivo, pero tambien lo hicieron bien Gustavo Gil, Ray Fosse, D\u00c3\u00a1maso Blanco, Jes\u00c3\u00bas Aristimu\u00c3\u00b1o, Chico Ruiz, Orlando Pe\u00c3\u00b1a, Machado, Gregory Sims y los que se fueron Dick Baney y Gaston. Sin olvidar a Concepci\u00c3\u00b3n Escalona y Victor Colina\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. Eso lo dijo en referencia a la temporada regular. Respecto a la semifinal: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153El equipo rindi\u00c3\u00b3 mucho. Machado fue el h\u00c3\u00a9roe por su trabajo certero. Pero Holt dio muchos batazos oportunos y los dem\u00c3\u00a1s peloteros lo hicieron bien. C\u00c3\u00a9sar Tovar por ejemplo, no bate\u00c3\u00b3, pero filde\u00c3\u00b3 en grande y fue la inspiraci\u00c3\u00b3n del team, por su fogosidad. M\u00c3\u00a1rquez, otro refuerzo, tambi\u00c3\u00a9n nos ayud\u00c3\u00b3\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/p>\n
Luego de la conquista del cetro caribe\u00c3\u00b1o declar\u00c3\u00b3 para Sport Gr\u00c3\u00a1fico: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Nuestra armon\u00c3\u00ada ha servido de mucho. Quiz\u00c3\u00a1s haya sido realmente la fuerza principal en la lucha. Creo que tenemos un buen equipo y que conseguimos el camino del triunfo cuando lo necesit\u00c3\u00a1bamos\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/p>\n
Patato dirigi\u00c3\u00b3 al Magallanes en las temporadas 1969-70, 70-71, 71-72 y 72-73. Consigui\u00c3\u00b3 1 campeonato. 1 Serie del Caribe. 1 sub-campeonato y las \u00c3\u00baltimas dos temporadas batall\u00c3\u00b3 hasta \u00c3\u00baltimo momento en dos jornadas de desempate. Dej\u00c3\u00b3 marca de 126 victorias y 126 derrotas.<\/p>\n
Paz a los restos de un gran manager.<\/p>\n
Alfonso L. Tusa C.<\/p>\n
English translation<\/p>\n
That start of 1969 had been very dynamic for the venezuelan baseball. The Magallanes Navigators had qualified for the four-team final series, but that was all. Once the season finished there were more movements. The Magallanes team was sold to a group of people from Valencia. As the days passed by I asked my brothers who would be the Magallanes Navigators\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 skipper. They told me Carlos Patato Pascual. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The same guy that managed the Aragua Tigers the last season\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, Felipe said with some hope. Jes\u00c3\u00bas Mario kept his regular skepticism. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I hope that he doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t wait so long to take out the pitchers as Napole\u00c3\u00b3n Reyes did.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
Pacual was born on March 13th<\/sup>, 1931 in Havana, Cuba. He played in MLB for the Washington Senators in 1950. He had a 1-1 record. 2.12 ERA. 17 innings.<\/p>\n From the beginning of the 1969-70 season of the venezuelan winter league, it was noticed Patato\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s positive attitude and willingness. He always talked with all his players. And had a great criteria to change the pitchers and also for using his bench players.<\/p>\n Many people say that the origin of this anecdote belongs to Alfonso Chico Carrasquel and Tony Armas Sr. With all my respect for Chico Carrasquel and Armas, the first time I heard it was when some journalists asked Patato Pascual after a game why didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t he order the bunt with Cito Gaston. Patato answered: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If you want to see Gaston bunting you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going to have to buy him a drum.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n Patato Pascual died this Thursday, May 12th<\/sup>, 2011 in Miami, Fla. After a long disease that got worse with a pneumonia.<\/p>\n I remember a lot a game in November 1969. Magallanes faced the Caracas Lions. There was a play at home plate after Magallanes took the lead 2-1. The umpire called Gustavo Gil out in a very close action. Patato complained with a lot of energy and got expulsed along with his coach Leopoldo Tovar. That was one of the ways he motivated his players to give their best effort.<\/p>\n When Gaston took his at-bats, most of all at the end of the game, Patato shouted from the dugout: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Come on Cito give them under the rib cage. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for they to respect us\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/p>\n Patato always performed as third base coach in that 1969.70 season. In the first game of the semifinal play off the Aragua Tigers routed Magallanes. When the journalists arrived to the Magallanes dugout, the first comment of Patato was: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The play off is just beginning. You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll see tomorrow night how Magallanes is more alive than never\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. In the second game Magallanes defeated the Tigers. For the third contest Magallanes was losing 3-0 in the fifth frame. With runners at first and third base Patato brought Gonzalo Marquez to pinch-hit for pitcher Danny Morris. Marquez hit a single to left field to put the score 3-2. The game arrived 3-3 to the 14th<\/sup> inning when Gregorio Machado, who had relieved for 10 innings, got to first base and Gustavo Gil hit a triple to deep left centerfield. Patato shaked his arms like a fan in third base and ran along with Machado to home plate.<\/p>\n After beating the Tigers in the semifinal series Patato told the media: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It would be wrong to select this or that player. Everybody hustled and gave all of their effort. Of course Jim Holt was the inspiration because of his bat, but also Gustavo Gil, Ray Fosse, D\u00c3\u00a1maso Blanco, Jes\u00c3\u00bas Aristimu\u00c3\u00b1o, Chico Ruiz, Orlando Pe\u00c3\u00b1a, Machado, Gregory Sims and the ones who left, Dick Baney y Gaston. Not to forget about Concepci\u00c3\u00b3n Escalona and Victor Colina\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. That was about the regular season. In reference to the semifinal series he said \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The team was magnificent. Machado was the hero for his great job. But Holt hit a lot of line drives in the clutch and the other players did it very well. For example, Cesar Tovar didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t hit well. But he made a great job in the field. He was the team\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s inspiration because of his enthusiasm. Marquez also helped us\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/p>\n After getting the 1970 Caribbean Series championship, Patato said for the Sport Grafico magazine: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Our harmony has been very useful. Maybe it was the main strength in the competition. I think we have a good team and we found the winning road just when we needed\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/p>\n Patato managed the Magallanes team in the 1969-70, 70-71, 71-72 and 72-73 seasons. He achieved 1 league championship. 1 Caribbean Series title. 1 sub-championship. The last two times he battled until the end in two play off games to decide the last couple of qualified teams. His lifetime record with the Magallanes Navigators was 126-126.<\/p>\n Rest in peace Carlos Patato Pascual a great manager.<\/p>\n Alfonso L. Tusa C.<\/p>\n Alfonso\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s work has been featured in Venezuela\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s daily newspaper, El Nacional and in the magazine Gente en Ambiente, and he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s collaborated on several articles for newspapers, including the daily paper Tal Cual. 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