[新聞] Tony Pena's mother passes away in the Dominican

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Rosalia Padilla Pena, the mother of Yankees bench coach and former Major League catcher and manager Tony Pena, passed away Tuesday in the Dominican Republic. She was 79. Rosalia Padilla Pena was a former star softball player who took it upon herself to teach her son the game of baseball because Tony's father, Octaviano, worked long hours during the day. "She would place two little Penas in the outfield, one in the on-deck circle and one in the batter's box," wrote Joe Posnanski in a 2003 Kansas City Star feature on Pena. "She pitched. 'She had some kind of arm,' Tony said. 'Hitting her was like trying to hit Nolan Ryan.'" Rosalia also was the one who begrudgingly gave Tony the final approval to chase his dream by going from his native Dominican Republic up to the United States to try to make it in the Majors. "She didn't consider baseball a career option for Tony," Posnanski wrote. "Boys in the Dominican were supposed to play baseball -- it added color to a dreary life of farming and burning sunshine. But that was all. Tony Pena's life was already laid out. His future wife, Amaris, lived three houses down. He was strong enough to work in the banana fields. He would have children and live his life in Palo Verde. When the baseball scout asked to take Tony away to America for baseball, he might as well have asked to take him on a spaceship to Pluto. "'Please,' Tony said to his mother. And then he said something that can only be loosely translated to mean: 'Baseball is all that is in my heart.' Rosalia remained unmoved. 'If I don't make it in one year,' Tony said, 'I will come home.' ... And she nodded." Tony went on to play 18 seasons in the big leagues, make five All-Star teams and win four Gold Gloves. Since retiring as a player in 1997, he managed in the Minor Leagues before taking over the helm of the Kansas City Royals in 2002. Pena was awarded American League Manager of the Year in '03, skippered the Royals until May '05, and has been coaching in the Yankees organization since November '05. Rosalia Padilla Pena's funeral is scheduled for Wednesday at 3 p.m. in the town of Altamira, Dominican Republic. http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20110125&content_id=16503324&vkey=news_nyy&c_id=nyy&partnerId=rss_nyy -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 140.133.13.131

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