Vic Power

Pellot used the name Vic Power during his major league career, but played as Victor Pellot when he played winter baseball in Puerto Rico. He was an AL All-Star for four seasons playing in five of the six All-Star games that were played, and won seven consecutive Gold Glove Awards.
Born Victor Felipe Pove, Pove was born in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, the second child in a family of six (Pove was his mother's maiden name while Pellot was his father's surname, as is traditional in Hispanic culture, such as Roberto Enrique Clemente Walker). However, when his mother, Maximina Pove, was in the first grade, her teacher changed her last name, changing the "v" to a "w" and adding an "r" at the end due to believing she was too illiterate to spell her own name, and Pove became Power. Power showed an interest in baseball at a young age, but his father didn't want him to play baseball and would punish him…