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HOUSE RESOLUTION

 
2    WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of
3Representatives are pleased to congratulate Jose Abreu on being
4named the 2014 Major League Baseball American League Rookie of
5the Year; and
 
6    WHEREAS, Jose Dariel Abreu Correa was born on January 29,
71987 in Cruces, Cienfuegos Province, Cuba; and
 
8    WHEREAS, Jose Abreu was a star of Cuban baseball; he played
9in the Cuban National Series and on Cuba's national baseball
10team; after defecting from Cuba to the Dominican Republic in
11August of 2013, he was granted free agency by Major League
12Baseball (MLB); he signed with the Chicago White Sox in October
132013; and
 
14    WHEREAS, Jose Abreu made his MLB debut for the White Sox on
15March 31, 2014; he recorded his first major-league hit on that
16day and his first home run 8 days later; and
 
17    WHEREAS, During the first half of the 2014 MLB season, Jose
18Abreu was repeatedly named American League (AL) Player of the
19Week and AL Player of the Month as his statistics continued to
20climb; and
 

 

 

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1    WHEREAS, As excitement and appreciation grew for Jose
2Abreu's talents as a hitter, he was selected to join the
3American League All-Star Team in the 2014 MLB All-Star Game,
4played at Target Field in Minneapolis; and
 
5    WHEREAS, By the end of the 2014 MLB season, Jose Abreu was
6credited with 176 hits, 107 runs batted in, and 80 runs; his
7on-base percentage was .383, and his 36 homers notched a new
8record for White Sox sluggers in their rookie year; and
 
9    WHEREAS, Jose Abreu was awarded the Silver Slugger Award
10for being the best offensive player at first base in the
11American League during the 2014 MLB season; and
 
12    WHEREAS, On November 10, 2014, Jose Abreu was named by the
13Baseball Writers Association of America as recipient of the
14American League Rookie of the Year Award in a unanimous vote;
15and
 
16    WHEREAS, Jose Abreu joins Luis Aparicio, Gary Peters,
17Tommie Agee, Ron Kittle, and Ozzie Guillen as Chicago White Sox
18players named American League Rookie of the Year; and
 
19    WHEREAS, The Rookie of the Year Award for the American
20League and the National League are presented annually in honor
21of the inaugural 1947 winner, Jackie Robinson, signaling this

 

 

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1award's status as one of the highest honors in Major League
2Baseball; therefore, be it
 
3    RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
4NINETY-EIGHTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that
5we congratulate Jose Dariel Abreu Correa on being named the
62014 Major League Baseball American League Rookie of the Year,
7and we wish him many more years of success; and be it further
 
8    RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be
9presented to Jose Abreu and to the Chicago White Sox as a
10symbol of our recognition of his great achievements.