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passed away last tuesday at age 40
ยป May 26, 1993: Texas OF Jose Canseco has a fly ball off the bat of Cleveland's Carlos Martinez bounce off his head and into the stands for a home run. The Indians defeat the Rangers, 7-6.
(http://www.iiiii.nu/image_archive/public_figures/canseco_jose/head_home_run.jpg)
Article on cleveland's MLB page (http://cleveland.indians.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/news/article.jsp?ymd=20060125&content_id=1300333&vkey=news_cle&fext=.jsp&c_id=cle) - shortened link by Gantry
http://www.baseball-reference.com/m/martica02.shtml (http://www.baseball-reference.com/m/martica02.shtml)
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We wish to congratulate Mr. Martinez on hitting 4% of his career homeruns off of Jose Canseco's head. Awesome!
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EDIT to include Box Score (http://retrosheet.org/boxesetc/B05260CLE1993.htm)
http://dee-nee.com/wiki/index.php/Carlos_Martinez
I don't remember Carlos Martinez but have lots of respect for the man after hearing he was the guy who bounced the ball of Canseco's dome and into the stands for a HR. RIP indeed.