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Born in Peñuelas in 1954, Mariano Quiñones became an outstanding Puerto Rican pitcher who brought distinction to his town through stellar local play, participation in multiple international competitions, and the Olympic Games in Seoul, Korea, in 1988. In Puerto Rican amateur baseball, he was the only pitcher at that time to achieve more than one hundred victories, with 160, and more than one thousand strikeouts, with 1,616.
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