DATE: 1980s ORIGINAL or DUPLICATE: Original Film TEAM: Los Angeles Dodgers SUBJECT: PHOTOGRAPHER: Charles Bernhardt APPROXIMATE SIZE: 35mm in standard 2"x2" slide mount NUMBER OF SLIDES: 1 COMMENTS / CONDITION: This is an original color transparency (film) which, like original negatives, can be used to produce high-quality prints (and unlike negatives, can be viewed and enjoyed with the naked eye, without having to use software to invert the image). See scan for further details. This is one of a large accumulation of vintage sports photographs, slides and negatives that we will be listing over the coming months. Wear on these, if any, is mostly confined to minor corner and edge wear, but see scans for further details including condition. We do not deal in stock images or modern reprints, and all scans shown are of the actual vintage photograph, slide or negative being sold. If you have any questions about a particular piece, please ask before the auction ends. BIO: Fernando (Anguamea) Valenzuela was born in 1960 in Navojoa, Mexico. He played major league baseball from 1980 to 1997 as pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers, California Angels, Baltimore Orioles, Philadelphia Phillies, San Diego Padres and the St. Louis Cardinals, appeared in the 1981 World Series, and was selected 6 times as an All-Star. In his rookie year of 1981, Valenzuela achieved superstardom and created the Fernandomania sensation. He was the 1981 National League Rookie of the Year, National League Pitcher of the Year, Major League Player of the Year, and also won the Cy Young Award that year. He also earned a Gold Glove in 1986. In 1992 he was signed by the Detroit Tigers, but his contract was sold to the Jalisco Charros before he even appeared in a game for the Tigers. In each of his three seasons in the Mexican League he had won 10 games, but with his loss total dropping from 12 to 9 to 3. Valenzuela ended his major league career with 2,074 K's. Since leaving the major leagues, Valenzuela has returned to pitch for several more seasons in the Mexican Pacific League, skipping summer ball to focus on the winter leagues. He was still pitching in the LMP in 2005. A year later, he was with the LMP's Águilas de Mexicali and one of his teammates was his son, Fernando Valenzuela Jr. Valenzuela currently does color commentary for Spanish language broadcasts of Dodger games alongside Jaime Jarrin. He is serving as a bench coach for Mexico at the 2009 World Baseball Classic. SKU: LCZ06633
Item: LCZ06633
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