Talk:Tony Oliva

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Birthdate

I've seen 1938 (baseball-reference.com), 1940 (here and baseballlibrary.com) and 1941 (baseball cube).

Which is it? 66.63.144.242 18:22, 6 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It should be 1938 - which this page reflects. The issue is that he used his brother's name when he first came up (who was younger) and that confused the issue. Not unlike what other recent Latino players have done - you hide your age which makes you look like more of a prospect and therefore worth more dough, ray, me. Ckruschke (talk) 18:43, 19 May 2011 (UTC)Ckruschke[reply]

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Name discrepancies

Tony Oliva's name (here, in BBref and Baseball-Almanac) are Antonio Oliva Lopez Hernandes Javique. There is no reference to the name Javique anywhere, and both his SabrBio [1] and his biography by Henninger [2] refer to him having been born Pedro Jr. after his father, and only got the name Antonio after getting a passport with his brothers (Antonio) birth certificate.

I feel fairly confident that his birth name is Pedro Oliva López Hernández Oliva, but am hesitant to change it due to the visibility of his name and that lots of places has his name as Antonio. There's also different stories of Oliva using his brothers passport [3] not his birth certificate (to get a passport).

I just want a second opinion before making any of those changes. Do I trust his biography and Sabr bio?

Hamma085 (talk) 19:18, 24 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]