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Baseball|Abuela, Chef, Boss: Vladimir Guerrero Jr.’s Grandmother Feeds nan Majors
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For astir 2 decades, Altagracia Alvino has lived pinch and cooked for her baseball-playing offspring — arsenic good arsenic their teammates and opponents.
Published Aug. 25, 2019Updated Sept. 14, 2021
TORONTO — The brownish sweetener bubbled successful nan pan. The marinated goat nutrient sizzled erstwhile added. Spoonfuls of olives and capers were heaped into nan mixture. Then Altagracia Alvino, who tin make this crockery pinch her eyes closed, froze.
“Did I put herb successful here?” she whispered to herself successful Spanish.
Alvino, 66, was observant to make arsenic small sound arsenic imaginable because it was 7:22 a.m., and her hubby and her 20-year-old grandson, Vladimir Guerrero Jr., 1 of baseball’s brightest young stars, were dormant successful their rooms of nan family’s Toronto apartment. The acquainted scent of cooking nutrient was unavoidable, though.
Silver hairsbreadth successful a net, Alvino leaned successful to inspect nan meat, decided it so lacked footwear and reached for a package of crushed reddish pepper. She had plentifulness of clip to cleanable nan feast of achromatic rice, stewed beans and goat earlier Guerrero awakened astatine 11 a.m. and quickly departed for Rogers Centre, carrying bags of nan nutrient to stock pinch some his Blue Jays teammates and their opponents.
Alvino whitethorn beryllium nan astir celebrated and powerful grandma successful baseball. For astir 2 decades, she has filled nan bellies of hundreds of players, astir of them Latin Americans acold from home. Eating her comfortableness nutrient is simply a tradition that has go particularly popular among players from nan family’s homeland, nan Dominican Republic.
A fewer person travel to telephone Alvino “abuela,” aliases Grandma, yet astir person ne'er met her. She was location for every measurement successful nan profession of her boy Vladimir Guerrero Sr., who was enshrined successful nan Hall of Fame past year, and now she oversees his son’s.
“I do it retired of love,” Alvino said precocious arsenic she drank java astatine nan eating room array while nan nutrient cooked.
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