Zoilo Casanova Versalles Rodriguez, nicknamed "Zorro", was a Cuban professional baseball player.
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15 Facts About Zoilo Versalles
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Zoilo Versalles played as a shortstop in Major League Baseball, most notably for the Minnesota Twins.
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Zoilo Versalles was the catalyst who led the 1965 Twins to their first World Series after moving from Washington to Minnesota.
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Zoilo Versalles was signed as an amateur free agent by the Washington Senators prior to the 1958 season and was assigned to the Elmira Pioneers in the Class D New York–Penn League where he held his own and hit.
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The following season, Zoilo Versalles played in 160 games and despite his batting average dropping to.
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Zoilo Versalles led the league in assists with 501 and lowered his errors from 30 to 26, and got a smattering of MVP votes.
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Under the tutelage of Twins' third base coach Billy Martin, Zoilo Versalles put it all together during his 1965 MVP season and led the American League in plate appearances, at-bats, runs scored, doubles, triples, extra-base hits and total bases, and was second in assists and third in stolen bases.
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Zoilo Versalles was a near-unanimous winner of the MVP award, receiving 19 of 20 first-place votes.
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Zoilo Versalles led the league and set career highs in both strikeouts and errors, which underlined his career-long struggles both at the plate and in the field in these areas.
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Zoilo Versalles returned to the Minneapolis area following his year in Japan, but found it virtually impossible to make a living, partly because he had never learned English and partly because of the lingering effects of a back injury he had suffered while running out a ground ball with the Dodgers in 1968.
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Zoilo Versalles was found dead in his home in Bloomington, Minnesota, on June 11,1995.
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An autopsy revealed that Zoilo Versalles died from arteriosclerotic heart disease or hardening of the arteries.
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Zoilo Versalles was survived by his wife Maria, six daughters and several grandchildren.
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