Rudy Fernández (baseball)

{{short description|Cuban baseball player (born 1911)}}

{{other uses|Rudy Fernandez (disambiguation)}}

{{family name hatnote|Fernández|Marín|lang=Spanish}}

{{Infobox baseball biography

| name = Rudy Fernández

| image = Rodolfo Fernandez Baseball.jpg

| position = Pitcher

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1911|6|27|mf=y}}

| birth_place = Guanabacoa, Cuba

| death_date = {{death date and age|2000|9|6|1911|6|27|mf=y}}

| death_place = New York, New York. U.S.

| bats = Right

| throws = Right

| debutleague = Negro league baseball

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| debutyear = 1932

| debutteam = Cuban Stars (East)

| finaldate =

| finalyear = 1946

| finalteam = New York Black Yankees

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| teams =

• Cuban Stars (East) (1932–1934)
• New York Cubans (1935)
• Cuban Stars (East) (1936)
• New York Cubans (1939, 1943–1944)
• New York Black Yankees (1946)

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Rodolfo "Rudy" Fernández Marín (June 27, 1911 – September 6, 2000) was a Cuban professional baseball pitcher in the American Negro leagues in the 1930s and 1940s.

A native of Guanabacoa, Cuba, Fernández was the brother of fellow Negro leaguer José Fernández.{{cite web|author= |url=https://www.seamheads.com/NegroLgs/player.php?playerID=ferna01rod |title=Rodolfo Fernández |publisher=seamheads.com |date= |accessdate=August 4, 2020}} Younger brother Rudy broke into the Negro leagues in 1932 with the Cuban Stars (East), and pitched for over a decade, ending his career with the New York Black Yankees in 1946. He tossed shutout wins against both the New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers in exhibition games in Havana.{{cite web|author= |url=http://www.nlbpa.com/the-athletes/fernandez-rudolfo---rudy |title=Rodolfo 'Rudy' Fernandez |publisher=nlbpa.com |date= |accessdate=August 4, 2020}} Fernández died in New York, New York in 2000 at age 89.