Omar Linares

Quick Facts

Full Name	Omar Linares
Occupation	Baseball Player
Date Of Birth	Oct 23, 1967(1967-10-23)
Age	57
Birthplace	Pinar del Rio
Country	Cuba
Horoscope	Capricorn

Omar Linares Biography

Omar Linares is one of the most popular and richest Baseball Player who was born on October 23, 1967 in Pinar del Rio, Cuba. Omar Linares Izquierdo (born October 23, 1967 in San Juan y Martínez, Pinar del Río Province, Cuba) is a former Cuban baseball player. Linares, who played third base for the Cuban national team and for Pinar del Río and Vegueros in the Cuban National Series wearing the number 10 on his jersey, is considered one of the greatest Cuban players of all time. Linares’s first steps in the world of sports were as a track and field athlete where he was considered a promising star at a young age. Linares soon decided to follow the steps of his father Fidel Linares in the world of baseball. He is well known in Cuba for having started a baseball career at a very young age. It is to Cuban baseball broadcaster Bobby Salamanca to whom it is attributed the popularity of Linares’s nickname “El Niño” (The Kid) after Linares impressed Salamanca with his baseball skills as a teen being called to the roster of Cuban national team being only 17, it is to former manager Jose Miguel Pineda that Linares attributes the authority of his nickname in 1982. After a career as a player in Cuba, Linares along with other Cuban baseball stars such as Antonio Pacheco, Orestes Kindelan and German Mesa in coordination with the Cuban national baseball commission decided to give it a try in the Nippon Professional Baseball. Linares went on to spending three unproductive seasons with the Chunichi Dragons wearing the number 44 on his jersey to later after return to Cuba. In 2009 Linares decided to become a batting coach and first base coach for longtime rival team Industriales helping them to conquer a national championship (his first as an assistant coach). Although Linares never received an official retiring ceremony, the season of 2001–2002 is considered to be his last appearance in Cuban National Baseball Series.

At the end of his career, Linares spent three seasons with the Chunichi Dragons of Japan’s Central League. He retired in 2004.

Omar Linares Net Worth

Omar Linares is one of the richest Baseball Player from Cuba. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Omar Linares 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

As a 14-year-old, Linares was the starting second baseman for the Cuban National youth team at the world championship, where they got the gold. His debut in Cuban national baseball series at the age of 14 was marked by his father’s decision of not allowing him to play with Forestales (second team of Pinar del Río) on road games, therefore Linares only played home games that year. The inclusion of Linares in the Cuban national team at the age of 17 as an optional replacement of slugger Jose “Cheito” Rodriguez short after a controversial suspension of “Cheito” by the Cuban National baseball commission is attributed to former manager Jose Miguel Pineda. After being called up, Linares was a mainstay on the Cuban national baseball team under the guidance of baseball star Luis Giraldo Casanova during much of the 1980s and 1990s, as the starting third baseman on world championship winning teams in 1986, 1988, 1990, 1994, 1998 and 2001. He was part of Cuba’s Olympic gold medal teams in 1992 and 1996, and the silver medal team in 2000. Linares also played for the Cuban national team in the 1999 Baltimore Orioles – Cuban national baseball team exhibition series.

In 2002 Juan A. Martinez de Osaba y Goneaga, a baseball enthusiast and annalist, published a book called El niño Linares as part of his tribute to Cuban baseball, especially to those players born in Pinar del Río Province. The book is believed to be the closest and more intimate review of Omar’s life as it includes transcripts of interviews with Omar himself, family members and also former teammates such as Luis Giraldo Casanova, Juan Castro, Yobal Dueñas and others and also longtime manager Jorge Fuentes.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Omar Linares Dating?

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Facts & Trivia

Jerrell Ranked on the list of most popular Baseball Player. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Cuba. Omar Linares celebrates birthday on October 23 of every year.

¿Dónde está Omar Linares?

Uno de los mejores peloteros cubanos de todos los tiempos, Omar Linares , está de vuelta en tierra nipona, contratado como entrenador del club Dragones de Chunichi, uno de los principales equipos de la Liga Central del béisbol profesional japonés.

¿Cuánto le ofrecieron a Omar Linares?

Los mejor pagados ganaban 3 o 4 millones por año. Cómo alguien puede pensar que a mí me ofrecieron 200 millones”, le expresó El Niño al periodista.

¿Qué es de la vida de Omar Linares?

Omar Linares Izquierdo nació el 23 de octubre de 1967 en Pinar del Río, Cuba. Es considerado uno de los jugadores de béisbol más grande de todos los tiempos. Por su corta edad al ingresar en el béisbol cubano, Linares fue apodado como El niño. Bateo / Lanz.

¿Cuánto mide Omar Linares?

6′ 1″

¿Quién es Omar en Cuba?

Popularmente conocido como el «Pagador De Promesas», a sus 56 años, Omar Quintero Montes de Oca, caminó desde La Habana hasta Santiago de Cuba durante DOS meses, sobre-poniéndose a su hipertensión arterial y al dolor de una hernia discal.