It was said, and I do not remember who exactly said it, that Manny Mota could wake up on a cold December morning, get out of bed, and hit a line drive. He was that kind of hitter. Manuel Rafael Mota Geronimo was born in the Dominican Republic on February 18, 1938. He was the sixth of eight children in a blended family. His mother, Fredesvinda, had four children with her first husband, a man named Pena: Dario, Odilia, Luisa, and Adriana, and four with her second husband, Andres Mota, a soldier in the Dominican Army: Andres, Manny, Barbara, and Josefina.
Player Profile: Manny Mota
