Michael Richard Balenti (July 3, 1886 – August 4, 1955) was a Major League Baseball shortstop and left fielder who played 70 games for the Cincinnati Reds and the St. Louis Browns in 1911 and 1913, respectively.

Balenti's mother was born of Charles Rath's marriage to a Cheyenne woman named Making-Out-Roads.

[1][2] Balenti married an Alaska Native, Cecilia Baronovich, whom he met while attending Carlisle Indian School.

They lived among the Cheyenne in Oklahoma part-time and among Cecilia's people in Alaska during the off-seasons.

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