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Felipe Alou wanted many things for his children. The list is familiar to any parent:
Good health. Happiness. Love. Friendship. Education. Passion. To have more than he ever had. To achieve more than he ever did.
Alou proved what was possible.
The 84-year-old patriarch of the Dominican Republic’s first family of baseball — so, essentially the first family of the baseball-mad nation —was the first person born and raised on the island to reach the major leagues (Ozzie Virgil was the first born in the country to hit the big leagues) and play in the World Series.