Cuban baseball player (1935-2014)
Baseball player
In this
Spanish name
, the first or paternal
surname
is
Maestri
and the second or maternal family name is
Garcia
.
Hector Anibal Maestri Garcia
(April 19, 1935 ? February 21, 2014) was a
Cuban
-born
Major League Baseball
pitcher
. Maestri was one of nine
ballplayers
to have appeared for both of the 20th century,
American League
Washington Senators franchises, and one of only three to have played for them in consecutive seasons. (
Hal Woodeshick
and
Rudy Hernandez
are the others.) In another oddity, he pitched in only one
game
for each franchise.
In 1956, the right-hander was signed by the
Washington Senators of 1901?60
; four years later, when the "original" Senators moved to
Minneapolis?St. Paul
as the
Minnesota Twins
, he was selected by the Twins' successors in
Washington
, the
expansion
Senators of 1961?71
, in the
1960 expansion lottery
.
Maestri was listed as 5 feet 10 inches (1.78 m) tall and 170 pounds (77 kg). His lone appearance for the
earlier Senators
, during their final days in the U.S. capital, saw him hurl two scoreless innings of
relief
against the
Baltimore Orioles
on September 24, 1960, at
Griffith Stadium
. Almost a full year later, on September 17, 1961, he appeared in his second and last
MLB
game for the expansion
Washington
club, starting and pitching six
innings
against the
Kansas City Athletics
, also at Griffith Stadium. He gave up three
runs
(just one
earned
) and took the loss in a 3?2 game.
Maestri's two-game career totals were 8
1
⁄
3
innings pitched
, seven
hits
and three
bases on balls
allowed, three
strikeouts
, a 0?1
record
, and a 1.13
ERA
.
Maestri had an eight-year (1957?1962; 1965?1966)
minor league
career. He died in 2014, aged 78, in
Miami
.
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