Lorenzo Fernández (baseball)
Lorenzo Marto "Chico" Fernández Mosquera (April 23, 1939 – November 30, 2020) was a Cuban professional baseball player who appeared in 24 games played during for the Baltimore Orioles of Major League Baseball. He threw and batted right-handed, stood tall and weighed . Fernández was primarily a shortstop and second baseman during his minor league career, which began in 1958 in the Detroit Tigers' system. (Coincidentally, the MLB Tigers would feature Humberto "Chico" Fernández, a fellow Cuban, as their regular shortstop between and .) In 1962, Lorenzo Fernández departed the Detroit organization briefly, playing in the Milwaukee Braves' system, and the next year he joined the Chicago White Sox organization. Baltimore acquired him after the season. He made the 1968 Orioles' Major League roster out of spring training. In his debut, as a pinch hitter on April 20 against the California Angels at Anaheim Stadium, he singled off Angel pitcher Bobby Locke in the eighth inning of a 10–1 Oriole triumph. It would be almost four months (August 16) before he would get his second hit, also a pinch single and this off Minnesota Twins' left-hander Jim Kaat. Fernández started only two games, a doubleheader against the Athletics at Oakland