Bobby Avila, the first Mexican to win a major league baseball batting title when he hit .341 for the Cleveland Indians in 1954, died Tuesday in his hometown of Veracruz, Mexico, of complications ...

Bobby Avila was once an award-winning baseball player. He would go on later in life to become the mayor of Mexico, cementing his status as one of the country's best and most iconic figures.

Bobby Avila, a three-time All-Star who won the American League batting title in 1954, died Tuesday of complications from diabetes and a ... Widely considered the first Mexican to spark major interest ...

Second baseman Bobby Avila, the American League batting champion in 1954 when he played for the pennant-winning Cleveland Indians, and one of the first prominent Latin major-leaguers in the decade … ...

Happy Birthday: Bobby Avila, Jefferson Farfan, Kieran Read . Sport360 staff 10:05 26/10/2015 [L-R] ... 80 home runs, 467 RBI and was inducted into the Mexican Baseball Hall of Fame in 1971.