Ramón Urías, an old former amateur baseball player from Magdalena de Kino, Sonora – where no politician is bigger than baseball – is proud of his sons Ramón and Luis, two young men who have always known they were going to be professional players. Today, those “astral twins,” as he calls them – they were both born on June 3, three years apart – line up as infielders in the Major Leagues: the first with the Orioles, the second with the Brewers.
MEXICO CITY (Process) .– The Sonoran municipality of Magdalena de Kino appeared on the radar of Mexicans in 1994, when the presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio, a native of that place, was assassinated. Before that murder, only baseball fans who idolized Sergio El Kalimán Robles, the incredible catcher of the Red Devils of Mexico, knew of that border place where barely 30 thousand people reside.
Of Magdalena de Kino, one of the hundred and so many magical towns that exist in Mexico, it is already said that it is the cradle of the Urías –Ramón and Luis–, the infielders with silk hands and a magic glove that in the 2021 season of the Major League Baseball became the fourth pair of Mexican brothers to belong to a Major League club.
Ramón and Luis Urías join Vicente El Huevo Romo (1968-1982) and his brother Enrique (1977-1982), Bobby (1968) and Alex Treviño (1978-1990), and Adrián (2004-2018) and Édgar González (2008-2009). The Urías, who since they were children painted for baseball players, made their pininos in the local baseball league when it was called Luis Donaldo Colosio. Now it bears the name of Kalimán Robles, because in Magdalena de Kino no politician is bigger than baseball.
Ramón Urías Sr. married María Trinidad Rodríguez Esquer when he himself was a player in municipal leagues, one of those who already know that they are not going to be professionals, but how they enjoy being on the diamond. That woman gave birth to two boys on the same date, but in a different year: June 3.
Ramón was born in 1994, the year in which in Magdalena de Kino the tears of many continued to bathe Colosio’s tomb; three years later his birthday gift was his little brother, El Wicho, who was born with light eyes, just like him, but with blond hair.
From plebes the Urías brothers have loved each other a lot. They played baseball in the street for fun. At the age of five Ramón started in a league and Luis joined him shortly after. The truth is that El Wicho did not want to go. He said he was going to be ashamed if he was struck out or if he missed the ball, but his father and brother managed to convince him.
Waste of talent
The Urías were already baseball players when in the league where they played there were so few teams that the older children had to face the boys because not even two teams of the same category were completed. At last from Sonora, their talent always gave them a place in the state teams and everywhere they went to play, especially in the National Olympics tournaments, they left half the world with their mouths open.
Ramón and María Trinidad divided themselves to the kids. He traveled with Ramón and she with El Wichito. This couple of teachers who are part of the national teaching staff spent their salary on everything their children needed to succeed in baseball, because the two had always known that they were going to be professional baseball players.
Fragment of the report published in the 2346 edition of Proceso magazine, whose digital edition can be purchased at this link.
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