Manuel Rafael Mota Geronimo, more commonly known as Manny Mota was born on February 18,1938, and is a Dominican former Major League Baseball outfielder who played 20 seasons for the San Francisco Giants, Pittsburgh Pirates and Montreal Expos, as well as being a pinch hitting specialist with the Los Angeles Dodgers.
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At the age of 19, Manny Mota signed as an amateur free agent with the New York Giants on February 21,1957.
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Manny Mota's first hit was a single off Jim Brosnan of the Cincinnati Reds on April 21,1962.
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On October 14,1968, Manny Mota was the second player selected in the expansion draft by the Montreal Expos.
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On June 11,1969 Manny Mota was traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers for Ron Fairly and Paul Popovich.
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On May 16,1970, Manny Mota hit the first batted ball in major league history to cause a fatality.
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In 1973, Manny Mota was selected to the National League All-Star team after leading the league in batting average.
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From 1974 through 1979, Manny Mota was continuously called upon for late inning heroics, where he averaged 10 pinch hits for six straight seasons.
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Manny Mota had a compact swing and often half-swung just to push the ball beyond the reach of the first baseman for a hit.
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In 1981, Manny Mota appeared in his fourth World Series, this time as a coach.
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Manny Mota retired as a player from the Dodgers after the 1982 season, a year in which he had only one plate appearance.
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Manny Mota served as a player-coach for the Dodgers during his final seasons on the diamond, then remained a coach after retiring as a player.
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Manny Mota coached Los Angeles in the 1988 World Series, his fifth in Dodger uniform.
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Manny Mota retired as a coach in 2013 to become a full-time broadcaster.
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Manny Mota was inducted into the Hispanic Heritage Baseball Museum Hall of Fame on August 23,2003, in a pre-game on-field ceremony at Dodger Stadium.
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Manny Mota was inducted into the Baseball Reliquary's Shrine of the Eternals in 2013.
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Manny Mota worked as a color commentator on the Fox Sports en Espanol television broadcast of the 2007 World Series and worked as a Spanish-language broadcaster for the Dodgers on select PrimeTicket broadcasts; he became a full-time broadcaster on the Spanish-language feeds of SportsNet LA in 2014.
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Manny Mota's son Jose was a Spanish language play by play broadcaster for the Los Angeles Angels for 20 years.
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Manny Mota joined the Los Angeles Dodgers Spanish language broadcast team in 2022.
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Manny Mota's nephew, Santiago Taveras, is an educator and former deputy chancellor in New York City, and was the principal of DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx until his ouster in a grade-fixing scandal in November 2016.
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