Oscar Taveras [SEP] place of birth
On October 26, 2014, he died in a car accident in the Dominican Republic shortly after the Cardinals were eliminated from the playoffs.
Early life.
Originally from Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic, Oscar Taveras grew up in a town called Sosúa. He began taking interest in baseball early in life. According to his father, Francisco Taveras, about age 5, he started to call himself ""El Fenómeno,"" which was Spanish for "The Phenomenon." "He would say, ‘I’m
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