Editing Dave Concepción (section)

== Early life ==
Concepción was born in Ocumare de la Costa, [[Aragua State]], [[Venezuela]], the son of a truck driver<ref name="Porter1995">{{cite book|author=David L. Porter|title=Biographical Dictionary of American Sports: 1992–1995 supplement for baseball, football, basketball, and other sports|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lHJrkIxwhMcC&pg=PA56|year=1995|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-28431-1|pages=56–|access-date=2016-10-10|archive-date=2023-02-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230208010514/https://books.google.com/books?id=lHJrkIxwhMcC&pg=PA56|url-status=live}}</ref> and his wife, Ernestina.<ref name="1800beisbol.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.1800beisbol.com/baseball/deportes/baseball/dave_concepcion_reds_ss_interview/|title=Dave Concepcion Reds SS Interview – 1-800-BEISBOL – 1-800-BEISBOL|last=beisbol|website=www.1800beisbol.com|access-date=2014-04-08|archive-date=2017-12-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171210015822/http://www.1800beisbol.com/baseball/deportes/baseball/dave_concepcion_reds_ss_interview/|url-status=live}}</ref> He attended Agustin Codazzi High School. After high school, he worked as a bank teller<ref name="(SABR)2014">{{cite book|author=Society for American Baseball Research (SABR)|title=The Great Eight: The 1975 Cincinnati Reds|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2vfMAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA144|date=1 April 2014|publisher=U of Nebraska Press|isbn=978-0-8032-5340-7|pages=144–}}</ref> and played part-time for the local [[Tigres de Aragua]] baseball team. His coach, [[Wilfredo Calviño]], was also a Cincinnati Reds' scout, and Calviño signed Concepción to a Reds' contract in 1967.<ref name="Porter1995" />