LOS ANGELES (AP) — Margarita Mota, the wife of Los Angeles Dodgers great Manny Mota and matriarch of a baseball family, died Saturday. She was 81. She had been in ill health in recent years and died of natural causes at home in the Los Angeles suburb of La Crescenta, according to her son, José, a former major leaguer who works on the team's Spanish language broadcasts. Manny Mota, who is 85, is major league baseball's No. 3 career pinch-hitter who won World Series titles with the Dodgers in 1981 and '88.

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