Impressive.
Posted on 03/01/2015 12:44:03 PM PST by EveningStar
Minnie Minoso, the hugely popular All-Star outfielder from Cuba who became the major league’s first black player out of Latin America and a treasured figure in the history of the Chicago White Sox, died on Sunday in Chicago. His true age was never entirely clear, but by an account in his autobiography, he would have been 89 when he died.
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Now batting....
That was Manny Mota.
Oops you’re right...
Impressive.
that is Cab Calloway who sang “Minnie the Moocher”
RIP.
"I did not know that."
Actually...I did ;^)
I grew up on the north side of Chicago, thus a Cubs fan, and Ernie Banks was our hero. But on the south side, Minnie Minoso was to the Sox what Ernie Banks was to the Cubs: A legend and a hero in Chicago. And now we have lost them both in the same winter.
I remember Orestes from the PCL Padres.
Mickey is saddened...
The article didn’t mention that Minnie also played with the Pacific Coast League (Triple-A) San Diego Padres.
RIP Mr. Minoso
I grew up in Rogers Park and moved to Evanston in 1968. Minnie’s son was a terrific athlete at ETHS. Unfortunately, he was too small for football and basketball, and he could not hit a curveball.
Ernie is Mr. Cub. There is no one who can compare.
I have an unofficial personal baseball Hall of Fame reserved for players who meant something to me, regardless of whether their stats warranted the real Hall of Fame. Minnie Minoso was always in my personal Hall of Fame. Others include Ryne Duren, Ted Kluszewski, Rocky Colavito, Smokey Burgess, Elston Howard, and Joe Adcock.
Minoso Led the league in being hit by pitches ten times. I wonder if that’s the all-time record?
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