Less than a minute after midnight, Emiliano Martinez was born — most probably the Bay Area's first baby of 2009, beating out other "First Half-Hour" children in Santa Clara, Castro Valley and elsewhere. He will soon leave the Antioch hospital to join his 2-year-old brother, Carmelo, in the family's Pittsburg home.
The couple decided many months ago to name the boy Emiliano after the Mexican popular hero, Emiliano Zapata, who was an important figure in the Mexican Revolution of 1910.
"He's kind of like a Robin Hood," said Francisco Martinez, an employee at the Concord Disposal Service who was raised in Pittsburg but was born in the Jalisco state of Mexico. His wife, a Concord native of Colombian and Greek descent, liked both the sound and the meaning of the name.
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