Alejandro Carrasquel, conspicuous gentleman, Caracas of pure strain and pioneer. It opened the doors of a cultural dimension as complex as the ball of the North to the Venezuelans in a leap towards a planet that many years later has become a substantial part of the Venezuelan being. Major League Baseball.

The irruption in the big show by Alejandro Carrasquel coincides with the changes that began to take place in Venezuela after the death of the Benemérito General Juan Vicente Gómez.

Creole baseball, like so many other planes of national life, had been quietly changing for some time as a result of exchanges with teams that, by sea, arrived and left important experiences. In addition, the influence of a connoted member of the spheres of political power, Gonzalo Gómez, son of the "strong man of Maracay" and patron of the romantic ball, prepared the way for an activity that, in the spontaneous ways of divertimento and distraction , went on to become a profession, first, and status feature already for this end of the century.

We heard as children, that Colombians and Panamanians encouraged most of the friendly competitions held on Venezuelan soil at that time of expansion and helped to emerge talents such as "Patón" Carrasquel, piece of the legendary Royal Criollos team that was, with the successive metamorphosis of Cervecería y Leones, the genesis of the current Caracas.

Historically, his landing in the northern prairies in 1943, already in the fifth of his eight official campaigns in the United States, left an imprint in the annals of the Washington Senators as one of his posers. Already by 1945 his coefficient of effectiveness 2.71, appeared among the brightest in the American League.

In total the courageous pitcher, and tied arm that came to overcome a twelve-game duel to the archifamoso Lefty Grove, figurehead of the Red Sox of Boston, won fifty challenges for the Senators before being changed to the ranks of the White Sox in the 1946 season due to the punishment imposed by the cupola of the Big Show as a reaction to the decision to go to play in Mexico without the corresponding authorization from their American contractors.

Alejandro "Patón" Carrasquel, was a muscular athlete of almost a meter ninety, with qualities to hit and above all to throw hard with his strong right arm endowed exceptionally to provoke the mortal movements that projected him, in the long run, among the most aggressive pitchers and effective of your time. "El Patón" never went unnoticed. Intelligent and open, he played by vocation, he did not know the word surrender and as he enjoyed a great set of physical and psychological qualities, he was overwhelming on and off the field.

Bear in mind that American baseball was moving towards a stage of organizational maturity and simultaneously, was debating the need to "mend" as best as possible their ranks as the atmosphere of global conflagration required the search of Latin Americans to cover the young Americans recruited to leave to the war. He had decided to play in Cuba then a sort of "backyard" North American, so that there enters, indirectly, in contact with that reality that awaited him, inexorable, in a crossroads of destiny, through his militancy in the Black Leagues.

The Senators of Washington learn about the qualities of that 27-year-old boy, they sign him and, in the blink of an eye, they take him to his reservoir of novices from where he emerges to assume the historic "senaduría" on the mound. A meritorious life, handcrafted carved in romantic caimaneras and arduous tours of up to two games a day for the same pitcher and awarded post mortem with the entrance to the Hall of Fame of Venezuelan Sports, just in the first election of 1971. Here records left in the big tent: