Dè Flanegin

Dè Flanegin was born in Santa Cruz, Aruba, on 24 December 1971 and is a former Dutch baseball and softball player and baseball and softball coach who spent his whole career in the Netherlands with the Hoofddorp Pioniers. The Dutch Wikipedia article says he began baseball at eleven in the youth team Carpetcenter of the club Aruba Videocenter in Santa Cruz and was selected three times in his youth to represent his country. At twelve he played for the Little League championship of South America in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, at fifteen he played in Sint Maarten for Aruba in the Senior League of that championship, and at seventeen he joined the main selection of Juvenil on Aruba. At eighteen he moved to Oranjestad and played at Double A level for Richmond as an infielder, at shortstop and second base, and was also used as a pitcher. This entry is written from the Dutch Wikipedia article on Dè Flanegin, because the subject has no English Wikipedia article.