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Abreu Passes Final
2004-07-07 23:15
by Mike Carminati

Tonight Bobby Abreu was elected to the NL All-Star team via the "Final Vote" online by the fans, barely edging Aramis Ramirez of the Cubs. It will be his first All-Star appearance. Hideki Matsui won in the AL.

During tonight's Phils game, a quote by Abreu probably translated from Spanish was displayed expressing his pleasure at being elected and his pride at being one of six Venezuelans at the game.

Those six would be Francisco Rodriguez, Victor Martinez, Carlos Guillen, Carlos Zambrano, Miguel Cabrera, and Abreu. If you're interested, here is the breakdown of the All-Stars by country:

CountryCount
USA39
Puerto Rico3
Dominican Republic9
Cuba1
Venezuela6
Panama1
Canada1
Mexico1
Japan2
Colombia1
South Vietnam1
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That got me to wondering what the breakdown is all time. So here are the All-Star appearances broken down by birthplace:

CountryCount
USA3558
Puerto Rico117
Dominican Republic117
Cuba71
Venezuela63
Panama32
Canada24
Mexico18
Japan10
Jamaica6
Nicaragua5
N/A3
Scotland3
Curacao3
Colombia4
Holland2
South Korea2
West Germany1
France1
South Vietnam2
Australia1
Total4043

For gits and shiggles, here are the players from the countries that have under ten All-Star appearances. Australia's sole rep was Dave Nilsson. South Vietnam's was and is Danny Graves. Charlie Lea is the only French All-Star, Bert Blyleven was the only Dutch, Bobby Thomson, the only Scot, and Glenn Hubbard, the only German (West German actually). Chan Ho Park & Byung-Hyun Kim represented South Korea. Edgar Renteria is again representing Colombia and is the only man to have ever done so. The pride of Curacao is of course Andruw Jones. Tippy Martinez and Dave Chalk represented no country, at least their point of origin has never been reported. Nicaragua 's had Dennis Martinez and Vicente Padilla as All-Stars. Jamaica, mon, has been represented by Chili Davis and Devon White. Finally, Japan has had five All-Stars: Hideki Matsui, Hideo Nomo, Ichiro Suzuki, Kazuhiro Sasaki, and Shigetoshi Hasegawa.

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