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There is a sizable community of Venezuelans in Miami, and lots of them love baseball.
The Miami Marlins know this, so they will be hosting a Venezuelan Heritage Celebration on Saturday in the game against the Detroit Tigers.
They tweeted some details of the celebration in Spanish, inviting fans to join the party on Saturday and having Venezuelans Jesus Luzardo and Luis Arraez in a cool video.
Unas arepas, unos tambores y béisbol.
Los esperamos el sábado panitas: https://t.co/SRoOwM2lJM #DaleMiami pic.twitter.com/1xiPyla4Il
— Miami Marlins (@Marlins) July 26, 2023
Special jerseys for the day will be sold at loanDepot Park, and there will be music and lots of things associated with the Venezuelan culture.
Perhaps the coolest thing of all is that the Marlins will also take advantage of the opportunity to give Tigers slugger Miguel Cabrera their love in his last season as a professional baseball player.
In case you don’t remember, Cabrera was one of the best prospects ever to come through the Marlins organization.
He made his MLB debut in 2003 and spent the first five seasons of his career in Miami with the then-Florida Marlins.
He won the 2003 World Series with them and famously hit a home run against Roger Clemens in the Fall Classic as a 20-year-old kid.
He was traded to the Tigers in 2008 and won every individual accolade you can imagine with them.
Cabrera has spent his entire MLB tenure with the two teams that will be facing each other on Saturday.
It will be a special celebration for him, too, not to mention Luzardo and Arraez.
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