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Lopez, Al | Baseball Hall of Fame
Over nearly two decades one of baseball’s most dependable backstop, Al Lopez built a reputation that any man would be proud to hang his hat on. But it was Lopez’s second act as a manager that cemented his place as a legend of the game.
http://baseballhall.org/hof/lopez-al
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Al Lopez - Baseball Hall of Fame Biographies - YouTube
Al Lopez was a solid major league catcher whose record of 1,918 games caught stood for more than 40 years. Lopez later found great success as manager of the Indians and White Sox. From 1951 to 1959, his teams - always known as overachievers - won two pennants and finished second to the Yankees the other seven years. His 1954 Indians won 111 games, an American League record that lasted 44 years, and in 1959 he led the Go-Go White Sox to their first pennant since 1919.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nux53KEIZTE
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Al Lopez - Baseball Wiki - Wikia
Alfonso Ramon Lopez (August 20 1908 – October 30 2005) was an American catcher and manager in Major League Baseball who established a major league record for career games as a catcher, and later became the only manager to interrupt the New York Yankees' string of American League pennants from 1949 to 1964. With a .584 career winning percentage, he ranks 4th in major league history among managers of at least 2000 games, behind Joe McCarthy (.615), Frank Selee (.598) and John McGraw (.586). Over the course of 15 full seasons as manager, he never had a losing record.
http://baseball.wikia.com/wiki/Al_Lopez
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Al Lopez Memorabilia: Autographed & Signed
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Al Lopez Biography - Childhood, Life Achievements & Timeline
Al Lopez was an American professional baseball player and baseball team manager. This biography of Al Lopez provides detailed information about his childhood, life, baseball career, achievements and timeline.
http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/al-lopez-7034.php
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Al Lopez Statistics and History | Baseball-Reference.com
Career: 51 HR, .261 BA, 652 RBI, C, HOF in 1977, 2xAllStar, Pirates/Dodgers/... 1928-1947, b:R/t:R, born in Unite. 1908, died 2005
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/lopezal01.shtml
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Al Lopez, a Hall of Fame Manager, Is Dead at 97 - The New York Times
Al Lopez, one of baseball's most prominent managers of the 1950's and the oldest member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, died yesterday in Tampa, Fla. He was 97 and had briefly returned to the spotlight this month when the Chicago White Sox franchise he managed to a pennant in 1959 finally returned to the World Series.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/31/sports/obituaries/al-lopez-a-hall-of-fame-manager-is-dead-at-97.html?_r=0
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Al López - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alfonso Ramón "Al" López (August 20, 1908 – October 30, 2005) was an American professional baseball player and manager. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a catcher for the Brooklyn Robins/Dodgers, Boston Bees, Pittsburgh Pirates and Cleveland Indians between 1928 and 1947. He was a manager for the Cleveland Indians and Chicago White Sox from 1951 to 1965 and 1968 to 1969. His Spanish-American heritage and "gentlemanly nature" earned him the nickname "El Señor".[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_L%C3%B3pez
