“We want an All-Star Game”

Mauricio Dubón He stands out in Major League Baseball with the Atlanta Braves, earlier than he did so with the Houston Astros and left his mark with the San Francisco Giants and Milwaukee Brewers. He has two Gold Gloves, a historic occasion for the Honduran.

At 31 years outdated he’s consolidated, his achievements are extra spectacular as a result of in Honduras the most well-liked sport is soccer and there aren’t any skilled baseball leagues in comparison with the heights of neighboring international locations equivalent to Nicaragua and Panama.

Danilo Dubón is Mauricio’s father, who fit like a glove on the Atlanta Braves roster, the best team in the MLB at the moment.

Consider it a “pride” Let them call their son the best athlete in the history of Honduras. “I tell you, it is a pride that someone passes by and recognizes them, that they are talking. Yes, I feel proud, I say, ‘How have you put the name of a stop in Honduras’.”

One of the keys that Don Danilo considers is Mauricio’s humility, he does not lose his ground. “It’s not that he doesn’t understand, but that he doesn’t think about this. Think about playing and doing things well. Lately we have seen that people are more interested in baseball, they are already talking about the catracho who is playing baseball. I followed a team now I’m going with him for the Honduran one. And the same here in Honduras because many people did not know baseball and have heard the news about it and are already interested in baseball.”

And he added: “I have talked to many people we don’t know and they ask me, buddy? He says, “Yes,” I tell him, “I’ll follow you,” he answers. He understands me, it’s something very impressive that you raise the name of Honduras and baseball.”

Mauricio Dubón’s love for baseball was instilled in him from a very young age. “I played baseball since I was 7 years old. in the Tara neighborhood and alternated with soccer in Colvisula, since we had a soccer field. “When his older brother is born, just like that, to the countryside.”

“I played on Sundays, his brother on Saturdays, that’s how we went and he (Mauricio) got involved until he liked it. He didn’t like playing with children of the same age. He liked to train with the greats, he said. So that’s how he started to like it when he was little, and the first time I saw him on a baseball field that I was playing on, he was two months old.”

The story continued: “From there he was already on the field, he took our bats, he picked up the balls, he was going to throw them on the field, when he was 5 or 6 years old he started training. And I saw a potential greater than the rest. “He was very daring, he favored to coach with the large children and you can inform he wasn’t afraid of something.”

Mauricio Dubón He showed a lot of skill in all positions, he was not trained in just one. He liked to hit, play center field, left field, right field, shortstop, first, second and third base, he even pitched. “In all of them, he performed effectively in all of them. He was even a catcher.”

The dream as a child seemed unattainable, but he always wanted to go to Major League Baseball in the United States: “For a Honduran it is rather tough, harder. Here why we do not have help for baseball.”

“A Nicaraguan buddy got here, he was a coach, who instructed me, ‘this one has potential.’ He was about 10 or 11 years outdated. But who would have imagined {that a} scout would come to see Hondurans.”

And it was time to leave, all surprise. “Who would have imagined {that a} Christian mission was going to take him on a scholarship. So he was already getting an picture of what he was prefer to play and thank God as a result of the Red Sox signed him.”

Mauricio was part of the winning team of the 2022 World Series with the Houston Astros, despite that, the father keeps all the moments as special: “The fact is that I get pleasure from my kids, all of the moments I’ve spent with him have been very comfortable. It is tough for me to see him as a star.”

“But after they speak concerning the World Series I used to be loopy, we had been at some buddies’, I used to be loopy. The identical when he instructed me that he was already a grandfather, when gained his first Gold Glovegoing to the Houston Astros, for me it is one thing good,” he reacted.

Don Danilo advised him well before transferring from the Astros to the Braves. “I instructed him a couple of group that hasn’t been superb in two years as a consequence of accidents, you come to a group that wants you and it’s important to be higher than you had been within the Astros…”.

He has high expectations for this season: “Another Gold Glove, one other World Series, we want a name to the All-Star Game “That is where we are going to need your support to teach people how to vote, because that is voting.”

He solely makes a want of the Catrachos who’re going to help his son on the video games: “Go and carry your Honduran flag, he has told me that he will always try to do everything possible to serve them and that he will always keep our flag.”

Mauricio Dubón acquired the Diez Award as the most effective baseball participant in Honduras and his father got here to the gala to obtain the award: “The truth is that it is an honor to come represent him,” Don Danilo mentioned within the interview.