Biography oscar zamora y don chema chicago
Biography oscar zamora y don chema chicago death!
A story of a young baseball loving US reporter and a gift from a struggling Chicago Cub pitcher from Cuba.
By Ron Berler
HAVANA TIMES – How do you thank someone who has passed?
Oscar Zamora, a Cuban native who emigrated to Miami, was a relief pitcher for the Chicago Cubs in the mid-1970s.
Biography oscar zamora y don chema chicago
He wasn’t very good, to put it kindly. During his Wrigley Field tenure, Cubs fans would serenade him as he exited the game, often in mid-inning after having surrendered a blizzard of runs. Here is a sample verse, sung to the tune of the long-ago Dean Martin hit “That’s Amore.”
When the pitch is so fat
That the ball hits the bat,
That’s Zamora!
From the press box where I sometimes sat, he seemed to accept the razzing with equanimity, as if he agreed it was deserved.
I was a young reporter at the time, and after games I’d pass him in the clubhouse as he dressed quietly at his locker, while I sought out one or another of his more prominent teammates. Zamora pitched for t