Chico Fernández

Who is Chico Fernández?

Lorenzo Marto "Chico" Fernández Mosquera is a retired Cuban-born professional baseball player who appeared in 24 games played during 1968 for the Baltimore Orioles of Major League Baseball. He threw and batted right-handed, stood 5 feet 10 inches tall and weighed 160 pounds.

Fernández was primarily a shortstop and second baseman during his minor league career, which began in 1958 in the Detroit Tigers' system. 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 1967 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 before he would get his second hit, also a pinch single and this off Minnesota Twins' left-hander Jim Kaat.