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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of |
| 3 | | Representatives are pleased to congratulate
Jose Abreu on being |
| 4 | | named the 2014 Major League Baseball American League Rookie of |
| 5 | | the Year; and
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| 6 | | WHEREAS, Jose Dariel Abreu Correa was born on January 29, |
| 7 | | 1987 in Cruces, Cienfuegos Province, Cuba; and
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| 8 | | WHEREAS, Jose Abreu was a star of Cuban baseball; he played |
| 9 | | in the Cuban National Series
and on Cuba's national baseball |
| 10 | | team; after defecting from Cuba to the Dominican Republic in
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| 11 | | August of 2013, he was granted free agency by Major League |
| 12 | | Baseball (MLB); he signed with the Chicago
White Sox in October |
| 13 | | 2013; and
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| 14 | | WHEREAS, Jose Abreu made his MLB debut for the White Sox on |
| 15 | | March 31, 2014; he recorded his first major-league hit on that |
| 16 | | day and his first home run 8 days later; and
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| 17 | | WHEREAS, During the first half of the 2014 MLB season, Jose |
| 18 | | Abreu was repeatedly named American League (AL) Player
of the |
| 19 | | Week and AL Player of the Month as his statistics continued to |
| 20 | | climb; and
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, As excitement and appreciation grew for Jose |
| 2 | | Abreu's talents as a hitter, he was selected to join the |
| 3 | | American League All-Star Team in the 2014 MLB All-Star Game, |
| 4 | | played at Target Field in
Minneapolis; and
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| 5 | | WHEREAS, By the end of the 2014 MLB season, Jose Abreu was |
| 6 | | credited with 176 hits, 107 runs
batted in, and 80 runs; his |
| 7 | | on-base percentage was .383, and his 36 homers notched a new |
| 8 | | record for
White Sox sluggers in their rookie year; and
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| 9 | | WHEREAS, Jose Abreu was awarded the Silver Slugger Award |
| 10 | | for being the best offensive player
at first base in the |
| 11 | | American League during the 2014 MLB season; and
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| 12 | | WHEREAS, On November 10, 2014, Jose Abreu was named by the |
| 13 | | Baseball Writers Association
of America as recipient of the |
| 14 | | American League Rookie of the Year Award in a unanimous vote; |
| 15 | | and
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| 16 | | WHEREAS, Jose Abreu joins Luis Aparicio, Gary Peters, |
| 17 | | Tommie Agee, Ron Kittle, and Ozzie
Guillen as Chicago White Sox |
| 18 | | players named American League Rookie of the Year; and
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| 19 | | WHEREAS, The Rookie of the Year Award for the American |
| 20 | | League and the National League are
presented annually in honor |
| 21 | | of the inaugural 1947 winner, Jackie Robinson, signaling this |
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| 1 | | award's status
as one of the highest honors in Major League |
| 2 | | Baseball; therefore, be it
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| 3 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE |
| 4 | | NINETY-EIGHTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that |
| 5 | | we congratulate Jose Dariel Abreu Correa on being named the |
| 6 | | 2014 Major League Baseball American League Rookie of the Year, |
| 7 | | and we wish him many more years of success; and be it further
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| 8 | | RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be |
| 9 | | presented to Jose Abreu and to the Chicago
White Sox as a |
| 10 | | symbol of our recognition of his great achievements.
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