* Alfonso Soriano, a current Major League Baseball outfielder playing for the Chicago Cubs

Alfonso Soriano signed with the club in 2007

In the offseason they signed Alfonso Soriano to the richest contract in Cubs history at 8 years for $ 136 million, and replaced unpopular skipper Dusty Baker with fiery veteran manager Lou Piniella.

* 1976 – Alfonso Soriano, Dominican baseball player

He was named the starter for the National League All-Star team but ultimately was the losing pitcher in that game after allowing six runs on five hits including a three run home run to Alfonso Soriano.

MVP and newly-appointed Rangers captain was traded to the New York Yankees for second baseman Alfonso Soriano and infielder prospect Joaquin Arias.

Mark Teixeira, Alfonso Soriano, Michael Young, and Hank Blalock became some of the best-hitting infielders in the league, with Young, Blalock, and Soriano were named to the 2004 All-Star Game.

** Alfonso Soriano, Dominican baseball player

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The Conjunto de la Secretaría de Cultura ( Secretary of Culture Complex ) is a series of buildings around a central plaza that contains a Juan Soriano sculpture by the nameof “ El Toro .” The three main buildings are the Edificio de Talleres which is for workshops on various artistic disciplines, the Casa de la Cultura Alfonso Michel or Edificio Central, which hosts various exhibitions along with a permanent collection of works by Alfonso Michel and Museo de las Culturas de Occidente María Ahumada de Gómez ( María Ahumada de Gómez Museum of Western Cultures. The Ahumada Museum has a large collection of archeological pieces from the region.

Some of the pros available include Chipper Jones, Frank Thomas Alex Rodriguez, Alfonso Soriano, Éric Gagné, Ichiro Suzuki, Sammy Sosa, Jim Thome, Albert Pujols, Nomar Garciaparra, Kenny Lofton, Ken Griffey, Jr., Cal Ripken Jr., Curt Schilling, and Barry Bonds.

# Alfonso Soriano: 9 ( Washington Nationals, 2006 )

Wood and Prior both made rehabilitation starts for the I-Cubs in 2004 and 2005 before returning to the Chicago Cubs ' active roster, and many Cubs players such as Derrek Lee, Daryle Ward, Alfonso Soriano, and Ryan Dempster have also made stops in Des Moines for rehab purposes.

The only other infielders in major league history who had had multiple 30 – 30 seasons as of 2011 were Ian Kinsler, Alfonso Soriano, and Howard Johnson.

He is third in MLB behind Alfonso Soriano and Rickey Henderson.

Alfonso Soriano is the most recent player to join the 40 – 40 club, reaching the milestone in 2006.

The most recent player to reach the milestone is Alfonso Soriano, achieving the feat during the 2006 season.

Alfonso Soriano collected 41 doubles alongside achieving 40 – 40.

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* September 16, 2006 – Washington Nationals ' Alfonso Soriano steals second base in the first inning of the game against the Milwaukee Brewers to become the fourth player in the Major League Baseball history to hit 40 home runs and steal 40 bases in a season.

The others are Alfonso Soriano ( 39 – 23 in 2002, 36 – 33 in 2005, 33 – 31 in 2007 ), Garret Anderson ( 35 – 24 in 2000 ), Ryan Braun ( 34 – 29 in 2007 ), Joe Crede ( 30 – 28 in 2006 ), and José Guillén ( 31 – 24 in 2003 ).

After being converted to left field, Alfonso Soriano led the league with 22 and 19 outfield assists in 2006 and 2007, respectively, his first two years playing the outfield.

A year ago it was bruited that the primary character in Erich Maria Remarque's new novel was based on the Marquis Alfonso De Portago, the Spanish nobleman who died driving in the Mille Miglia automobile race of 1957.

Alfonso Cuarón was born in México City and is the son of Alfredo Cuarón, a nuclear physicist who worked for the United Nations ' International Atomic Energy Agency for many years.

In 1138, Ali ibn Yusuf was defeated by Alfonso VII of León, and in the Battle of Ourique ( 1139 ), by Afonso I of Portugal, who thereby won his crown.

These arrangements were imperiled by the ill will of Alfonso XI of Castile, who was, at the time, publicly mistreating his wife.

Much like in Britain, who subtracted itself from the liberal constitutional process, Spanish conservatives wanted to continue with the Traditional Spanish Organic Laws such as the Fuero Juzgo, the Novísima Recopilación and the Partidas of Alfonso X.

As Alfonso XIII and Ena were returning from the wedding, they narrowly escaped an assassination attempt by Mateu Morral who threw a bomb from a high window ; instead, the bomb explosion killed or injured many bystanders and members of the Royal procession.

* Infante Jaime Luitpold Isabelino Enrique Alberto Alfonso Victor Acacio Pedro Maria of Spain ( 1908 – 1975 ), a deaf-mute as the result of a childhood operation, he renounced his rights to the throne in 1933 and became Duke of Segovia, and later Duke of Madrid, and who, as a legitimist pretender to the French throne from 1941 to 1975, was known as the Duke of Anjou.

His earliest years were passed in the monastery of Siresa, learning to read and write and to practice the military arts until the tuition of Lope Garcés the Pilgrim, who was repaid for his services by his former charge with the county of Pedrola when Alfonso came to the throne.

Alfonso had the support of one section of the nobles who found their account in the confusion.

Ibn al-Athir ( 1166 – 1234 ) describes Alfonso as a tireless soldier who would sleep in his armor without benefit of cover, who responded when asked why he did not take his pleasure from one of the captives of Muslim chiefs, responded that the man devoted to war needs the companionship of men not women.

Generous bequests to important churches and abbeys in Castile had the effect of making the noble churchmen there beneficiaries who would be encouraged by the will to act as a brake on Alfonso VII's ambitions to break it — and yet among the magnates witnessing the will in 1131 there is not a single cleric.

After being widowed in 1327, Alfonso married in February 1329 Eleanor of Castile ( 1308 – 1359 ), who was betrothed to his brother James, who had refused to consummate the marriage.

In 1421 Queen Joan II of Naples, who had no children, adopted and named him as heir to the Kingdom of Naples, and Alfonso went to Naples.

Alfonso requested support from Braccio da Montone, who was besieging Joan's troops in L ' Aquila, but had to set sail for Spain, where a war had broken out between his brothers and the Kingdom of Castile.

Papal troops had invaded the Neapolitan kingdom, but Alfonso corrupted the cardinal Giovanni Vitelleschi, who commanded them, and his successes waned.

Alfonso, who was provided with the most impressive artillery of the time, again besieged Naples.

At the time, Alfonso was at odds with Callixtus III, who died shortly thereafter.

This was because in 1448, while Skanderbeg was victoriously fighting off the Turkish invasions, three military columns, commanded by Demetrio Reres along with his sons Giorgio and Basilio, were dispatched to help Alfonso V defeat the barons of Naples who had rebelled against him.

Alfonso had been in love with a woman of noble family named Lucrezia d ' Alagno, who served as a de facto queen at the Neapolitan court as well as an inspiring muse.

In The Song the man who served him as his closest adviser was his vassal and kinsman Álvar Fáñez " Minaya " ( meaning " My brother ", a compound word of Spanish possessive Mi ( My ) and Anaia, the basque word for brother ), although the historical Álvar Fáñez remained in Castile with Alfonso VI.

His stepson and Alfonso VI's grandson, Alfonso VII was the only one who actually had an imperial coronation in 1135.

After Alfonso VII's death in 1157, the title was abandoned, and the kings who used it are not commonly mentioned as having been " emperors ", in Spanish or other historiography.