Fernando Valenzuela of the Dodgers and Ted...
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Fernando Valenzuela of the Dodgers and Ted Higuera of the Milwaukee Brewers came home to Mexico to lead a parade of athletes marking the 76th anniversary of the Mexican Revolution.
Thousands of amateur and professional athletes gathered in Mexico City’s Constitution Plaza, with President Miguel de la Madrid watching from a balcony of the National Palace.
The two pitchers rode in open antique cars, each with a placard bearing his name.
On Nov. 20, 1910, Francisco I. Madero summoned Mexicans from throughout the land to throw off the 30-year dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz, thus beginning a civil war that lasted until the mid-1920s.
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