Former Major League Baseball player Conrado Marrero was an All-Star pitcher on the mound in the 1950s -- and retired with an impressive 3.67 ERA, or 3.90, depending on the source -- but he probably never thought that he would be known for something other than his ability to strike out batters.

Marrero, who passed away earlier this week just days shy of his 103rd birthday, was the oldest-living former MLB player at 102 years of age.

Although many decades and eras have passed since Marrero's playing days, some of his former teammates and counterparts still have plenty of memories of the short (5'5") yet unique right-hander. In a biography by the Society for American Baseball Research, Felipe Alou once spoke about the Marrero as if he just watched him pitch yesterday.

"Connie Marrero had a windup that looked like a cross between a windmill gone berserk and a mallard duck trying to fly backwards," Felipe Alou said, as noted by CBS.

Meanwhile, Marrero himself had reflected on his time in the big leagues in the time leading up to his death.

"All the batters were the same to me," Marrero said when asked about his long-ago rivals, according to CBS News. "But I had more trouble with the lefties."

Marrero's name also came up last year when it was revealed that Major League Baseball finally would be compensating him as part of a payout to old-time baseball players who played between 1947 and 1979. Marrero had not received his money sooner due to the fact that he lived in Cuba and thus he faced obstacles in terms of getting past the embargo between the U.S. and Cuba.

"Everything that he was entitled to has now been delivered to him," Steve Rogers, a former MLB pitcher, said last year. "We found a way to get the funds to him," he said. "It was personally delivered and it was all sanctioned by the Treasury Department."

Marrero was born on April 25, 1911.