Danny Betancourt Chacón (born May 27, 1981 in

Santiago de Cuba Santiago de Cuba is the second-largest city in Cuba and the capital city of Santiago de Cuba Province. It lies in the southeastern area of the island, some southeast of the Cuban capital of Havana. The municipality extends over , and contains t ...

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) is a right-handed Olympian

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pitcher who has played for

in the

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, as well as the

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.Danny Betancourt Chacón
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that brought home a gold medal from

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, in Athens.

References

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