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Alfonso Ramón "Al" López (August 20, 1908 – October 30, 2005) was an American catcher and manager in Major League Baseball (MLB). He played catcher for the Brooklyn Robins/Dodgers, Boston Bees, Pittsburgh Pirates and Cleveland Indians between 1928 and 1947. He was a manager for the Cleveland Indians and Chicago White Sox from 1951 to 1965 and 1968 to 1969. His Spanish-American heritage and "gentlemanly nature" earned him the nickname ''"El Señor''".〔George, Justin. (He was 'pride of Tampa Latinos' ). ''Tampa Bay Times''. November 1, 2005. Accessed August 22, 2013.〕 As a player, López was a two-time All-Star and established a major league record for career games as a catcher (1918). As a manager, his .584 career winning percentage ranks fourth in major league history among managers of at least 2000 games, behind Joe McCarthy (.615), Frank Selee (.598) and John McGraw (.586). His Cleveland Indians and Chicago White Sox teams were the only squads to interrupt the New York Yankees' string of American League pennants from to , in 1954 and 1959, respectively. Over the course of 18 full seasons as a baseball manager (15 in the major leagues and 3 in the minors), his teams never finished with a losing record. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1977. López grew up in the Ybor City neighborhood of Tampa, Florida, the son of Spanish parents who had briefly lived in Cuba before immigrating to Florida. The Tampa Baseball Museum is being constructed in his childhood home.〔(Smashing start Tampa Baseball Museum ) WTSP〕 ==Early life== Al López was the son of immigrants from Asturias, Spain. Both of his parents immigrated to Cuba, then settled in the Cuban-Spanish-Italian immigrant community of Ybor City in Tampa, Florida in 1906.〔 His father, Modesto López, came over from Cuba in advance of the rest of the family, and López's mother and older siblings joined him a few months later. Alfonso Ramón López, the seventh of nine children, was born in Ybor City in 1908. When Al López was a small child, Ybor City was a thriving immigrant neighborhood with a population of over 10,000. The cigar industry was the most important in Tampa's economy at the time, and was especially important in Ybor City, where a high percentage of residents were employed either in the cigar factories or in businesses catering to the cigar industry or its employees. Modesto Lopez found work as a selector in a cigar factory, which involved sorting tobacco leaves for use in different grades of cigars. López visited his father's workplace as a child and later said that he "hated" the smell of tobacco leaves that permeated the building and his father's clothing when he returned home from the factory. "I vowed never to work in one."〔(Al Lopez, a Hall of Fame Manager, is Dead at 97 ). ''The New York Times''. Octobrt 31, 2005. Accessed August 22, 2013.〕〔(Al Lopez | SABR )〕 Modesto Lopez died of throat cancer in 1926.〔(Al Lopez, A Legend ). ''Tampa Tribune''.〕 As a teenager, López took a job delivering Cuban bread door to door for La Joven Francesca Bakery, which was located in a building which later became the Ybor City State Museum.〔 He had begun to follow baseball more seriously after his elder brother Emilio introduced him to the game as they followed the results of the 1920 World Series. López later said that while his brother also had baseball talent, he himself was more driven to excel at the game.〔Singletary, p. 14.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Al López」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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