Just Call Me Minnie : My Six Decades in Baseball

Minoso, Minnie; Fagen, Herb

ISBN 10: 0915611902 / ISBN 13: 9780915611904

Published by Sagamore Publishing, 1994

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Signed by Minnie Minoso on the front free endpaper.

Seller Inventory # 535342

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Just Call Me Minnie : My Six Decades in Baseball
• Publisher: Sagamore Publishing
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0915611902
• ISBN 13: 9780915611904
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

On May 1, 1951, a legend was born. Newly acquired Orestes Minoso, the first black to play Major League Baseball in the City of Chicago, stepped into the batter's box for his first turn at bat in a Chicago White Sox uniform. Minnie tells of his boyhood days in the sugar fields of Cuba, racial discrimination in Cuban society, and feelings of betrayal upon being traded from the Cleveland Indians to the Chicago White Sox in 1951.

Synopsis

On May 1, 1951, a legend was born. So was an era. Newly acquired Orestes Minoso, the first Black to play Major League Baseball in the city of Chicago, stepped into the batter's box for his first turn at bat in a Chicago White Sox uniform. On the mound for the New York Yankees that May afternoon was hard-throwing right-hander Vic Raschi, one of baseball's best. With a runner on first and one out, Minoso took Raschi's first pitch, then coolly blasted his second offering 415 feet into the centre field bullpen. The crowd of Comiskey Park faithfuls cheered wildly. Today, more than 40 years later, those cheers can still be heard. The living drama of this six-decade baseball legend is told with a rare blend of candor, insight, and honesty.