Vince Gonzales

Who was Vince Gonzales?

Wenceslao Gonzales O'Reilly was a Cuban-born professional baseball player during the 1950s and 1960s. A left-handed pitcher who stood 6 feet 1 inch tall and weighed 165 pounds, Gonzales appeared in one Major League Baseball game in 1955 as a member of the Washington Senators.

Gonzales entered pro baseball in 1951 as a member of the Ciudad Juárez Indios and in his first season, he led the Class C Southwest International League with 32 victories. He followed that by winning 25 and 22 games for the Indios.

In 1955, Gonzales was a member of the Senators' early season roster and appeared in the second game of the campaign, a road contest against the New York Yankees. Called into the game in the seventh inning with Washington already losing 13–1, he worked the final two frames, allowing six hits, six earned runs and three bases on balls in an eventual 19–1 rout.

Gonzales spent the rest of the season in the Arizona-Mexico League and the Mexican League and the rest of his career pitching in Mexico, appearing in a game as late as in 1969.