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Jose Altagracia Gonzalez Uribe (born January 21, 1959 in San Cristóbal, Dominican Republic) played Major League Baseball from 1984, debuting with the St. Louis Cardinals until 1993. Most of his ten-year career at shortstop was spent with the San Francisco Giants. He played for the Giants in the Bay Bridge Series in which they were swept by the Oakland Athletics and that is famous for being interrupted by the Loma Prieta earthquake.

Jose was also humorously the "Player to Really be Named Later". Early in his career, he was delivered as "the player to be named later" in a trade between the Giants and the Cardinals. Between the time of the initial trade and his delivery, he changed his name from Jose Uribe Gonzalez (Gonzalez is his mother's name) to just Jose Uribe (Uribe is his father's name) in order to minimize confusion with the more common name of Gonzalez. Thus he really was "named later".

He is a distant relative of the White Sox shortstop Juan Uribe.

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