Former Orioles third baseman Melvin Mora was among 60 candidates representing 31 different countries who became U.S. citizens on Monday afternoon at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Baltimore Field Office.
Mora, a two-time All-Star with the Orioles who was inducted into the franchise’s Hall of Fame two years ago, spent 10 of his 13 big league seasons with Baltimore, hitting .280/.355/.438 with them from 2000 to 2009.
The Venezuela native came to the United States as a teenager to pursue his big league dreams, and he established residency in the U.S. at the time of the birth of his quintuplets 16 years ago.