Luis Aparicio

I genuinely love what Luis Aparicio represents in baseball history — a skinny kid from Maracaibo who showed up to the American League in 1956 and immediately rewired how people thought about the shortstop position. He won AL Rookie of the Year, then proceeded to lead the league in stolen bases for nine straight seasons, which is just absurd. His glove work was equally relentless — nine Gold Gloves over a career that stretched from the White Sox to the Orioles to the Red Sox. He wasn't flashy in the highlight-reel sense, but every baseball person who watched him knew they were seeing something special. When Cooperstown came calling in 1984, it felt long overdue. He's one of those players who made the game smarter just by playing it.

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Name (English)

Luis Aparicio

Name (Japanese)

ルイス・アパリシオ

Reading

るいす・あぱりしお

Born

April 29, 1934 (age 92)

Origin

Maracaibo, Zulia, Venezuela

Height

175 cm

Occupation

baseball player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Dog

Awards & achievements

• Rawlings Gold Glove Award

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis%20Aparicio
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AB%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A2%E3%83%91%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B7%E3%82%AA
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q540248

Tags

• Zulia
• baseball player

Last updated

October 18, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.