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	The HistoryMakers
		Baseball legend Minnie Minoso was born Saturnino Orestes Arrieta Armas Minoso in Havana, Cuba, on November 29, 1922.
		Known as the "Cuban Comet," Minoso was the first Chicago White Sox player to break the color barrier in 1951.
		While with Chicago, Minoso ushered in the era of the "Go-Go Sox." Although he was not present for the Sox's 1959 pennant win, they gave him an honorary championship ring.
	thehistorymakers.com /biography/biography.asp?bioindex=338&... (285 words)

	Minnie Minoso \| BaseballLibrary.com
		Minoso debuted in 1949, but he was still officially a rookie when obtained by the White Sox in a three-team deal involving the Indians and A's on April 30, 1951.
		Twelve years later, during the second Veeck ownership, Minoso was brought out of retirement and went hitless as Chicago's DH against the Angels' Frank Tanana on September 11, 1976.
		Minnie will be out of action until July 19th, then go back on the DL on August 18th when Craig Anderson hits him with a pitch breaking his left forearm.
	www.baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/ballplayers/M/Minoso_Minnie.stm (1539 words)

	SI.com - Baseball Minors - Minnie Minoso plays in seventh decade - Wednesday July 16, 2003 09:17 PM
		Minoso, 77, became the first player to play professional baseball in seven decades Wednesday night when he took the field for the St. Paul Saints against Gary in the independent Northern League.
		Minoso became the first to play in six decades when he batted for the Saints in a game in 1993.
		Minoso, who currently works in Chicago's community relations department, came back with the White Sox in 1976 for eight at-bats (he got one hit) and two more in 1980.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /baseball/minors/news/2003/07/16/saints_minoso_ap (229 words)

	Major League Baseball Players Alumni Association (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Standing in front of his life-sized statue that was unveiled on the outfield concourse in left-center field Sunday on "Minnie Minoso Day," the Cuban Comet's eyes welled up with tears of joy.
		Minoso spoke long and from the heart as the organization he broke in with more than 50 years ago, and still works for, honored the man they call "Mr.
		Minoso is one of two players in Major League Baseball history to play in five decades.
	www.mlb.com /mlb/features/alumni/minoso.html (533 words)

	Major League Baseball : News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Minnie Minoso played with Chicago from 1951 to 1957, and again from 1960 to 1961, and made brief appearances in 1964, 1976 and 1980.
		Minoso is one of four players who have direct ties to the White Sox on the Hall of Fame ballot currently before the Veterans Committee.
		Minoso won three Gold Gloves in left field and led the AL in stolen bases from 1952 to 1954.
	www.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/mlb/news/mlb_news.jsp?ymd=20050228&content_id=952702&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp (640 words)

	Baseball Digest: Minnie Minoso added an unforgettable touch to the game (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The clipping revealed that Minoso led the American League in stolen bases with 31 and in triples with 14, ranked second in batting average with.326, fourth in hits with 173, second in runs scored with 112, and fourth in doubles with 34.
		Minoso didn't respond to the suggestion, but a resigned expression on his face indicated he knew there was nothing he could do about the vote tally.
		Minnie didn't bite on that question, but there's little doubt he would like to have been with the White Sox in 1959 when they won their first pennant in 40 years and met the Dodgers in the World Series.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0FCI/is_1_64/ai_n8565513 (1490 words)

	Minnie Minoso Baseball Stats by Baseball Almanac
		Minnie Minoso was born on Wednesday, November 29, 1922, in Havana, Cuba.
		Minoso was 26 years old when he broke into the big leagues on April 19, 1949, with the Cleveland Indians, and his Major League Baseball stats for every season he played, along with his career totals are on this page.
		Minnie Minoso's biographical data, year-by-year hitting stats, fielding stats, pitching stats (where applicable) career totals, uniform numbers, salary data and miscellaneous items-of-interest are presented by Baseball Almanac on this Minnie Minoso baseball statistics page.
	www.baseball-almanac.com /players/player.php?p=minosmi01 (208 words)

	Minnie Minoso Biography
		Orestes "Minnie" Minoso spent nine full seasons with the Chicago White Sox during a thrilling and successful career that spanned six decades.
		In addition to winning the 1951 AL Rookie of the Year award (after brief stints in 1949 and '50), Minoso hit over.300 eight times, was a seven-time All-Star and won three Gold Gloves during his career.
		After retiring from Major League Baseball in 1964, Minoso played three games on 1976 and two games in 1980 and one in 1995 (for the St. Paul Saints of the Independent Northern League) to become the first player in history to play professional baseball in six separate decades.
	www.autographedtoyou.com /Minnie-Minoso-biography.htm (186 words)

	Nashville City Paper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		But I will say that Minnie Minoso was one of the great ballplayers of his day, a man who played regularly through the age of 41, coming from an era (1949-64) when most players, none of whom were year-round athletes, were in retirement by age 35 or 36.
		Minoso logged more than a few interesting moments with the Sox, and he was and still is a living shrine in Chicago — reverence, in his instance, certainly a by-product of command performance as well as length of tenure.
		Minoso hung a line drive double into the left field corner and somehow winced into second base, where a pinch runner was summoned.
	www.nashvillecitypaper.com /index.cfm?section_id=7&screen=news&news_id=25141 (1331 words)

	Orosco Not Slowing Down At 45
		Minnie Minoso, by the way, has a not-unrealistic and building base of support among baseball analysts as a bona-fide Hall of Famer.
		But for the 1950s, Minnie Minoso was the no-questions-asked best Latin player in the majors and one of the fifteen best any players in the majors.
		Like Robinson, Minoso was a pioneer in his way - the first fl Latino in the major leagues (his Indians teammates, Mike [The Big Bear] Garcia and Bobby Avila, were way lighter skinned; Garcia, in addition, was a California native - he died in 1986).
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-chat/669926/posts (2550 words)

	VC Tournament - the Final Four - Baseball Fever
		Bill Dahlen, Joe Gordon, Minnie Minoso and Ron Santo are the cream of the crop among Veterans Committee Candidates.
		Minoso is one of mlb's biggest "what might have beens".
		The troubling thing about Minnie is his occasional admission that he was actually three years younger than his listed age, 25 rather than 28 in his first full season.
	www.baseball-fever.com /showthread.php?t=7947 (846 words)

	Minnie Minoso (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Minoso's offensive production from his leadoff spot in the batting order aided the Cubans as they captured the Negro National League pennant and won World Series from the Negro American League's Cleveland Buckeyes.
		A legitimate three-decade player, Minoso was brought back to the White Sox for special pinch-hitting appearances in 1976 and 1980 so he could qualify as a five-decade player.
		Minoso also had a short career in the minor leagues, beginning with a brief stint at Dayton (.525 batting average) between the New York Cubans and his first appearance in a Cleveland Indians' uniform.
	www.theforgottenleagues.com /minnie_minosoBIO.htm (492 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Minnie Minoso, a Cuban immigrant who began playing baseball on sugar plantations, became fodder for parody and derision when he said, “Baseball has been very, very good to me.” Minoso’s heartfelt remarks—both the content and the accent—have been mocked time and again.
		The hero of Chicago’s south side, Minnie Minoso, reminded me to be grateful; the legend of the north side, Ernie Banks, reminded me how blessed we are when we can be joyous even when we fail—even when we consistently fail.
		In the shining faces of a newly married daughter, the tears of a mother, and the twinkling eyes of a new son, I saw all that I needed to see to understand the meaning of gratitude, the need for commitment, and the value of joy.
	www.ptjournal.org /Sept98/Ednote.cfm (960 words)

	NetShrine Discussion Forum - Minnie Minoso
		Minnie was born in the wrong year, plain and simple.
		Minnie was more productive than Ted Williams, Larry Doby, Al Rosen, Nellie Fox, and every other AL batter in the 50's, other than Yogi and the Mick.
		Minoso should be in, but he's got one foot in each of two places, and not enough of a boost from either place to get in on that basis alone.
	www.netshrine.com /vbulletin2/archive/index.php/t-1941 (987 words)

	Sports...and Other Stuff
		Minnie Minoso batted leadoff as the DH for the Saints, making him the first man to play professional baseball in seven different decades.
		Minnie Minoso is 77 years old, and he walked.
		Minoso worked the count full and took a legitimate walk.
	www.unc.edu /~hundley/blog/2003_07_13_archive.html (799 words)

	Sunday Special: Cuban Exports / AP - Cuba News / Noticias - CubaNet News
		By 1949, with baseball's color line broken by Jackie Robinson, Cleveland had no problem importing Orestes ``Minnie'' Minoso, who unlike the early Cuban imports was not close to white.
		Minoso played for 17 seasons and appeared in four decades, although his cameo appearance in 1976 was more a token than anything else.
		In his autobiography, Minoso claimed he was in his dentist's office when he heard the doctor call out for Minnie.
	www.cubanet.org /CNews/y99/nov99/29e7.htm (670 words)

	(Baseball legend Minnie) Minoso plays in his seventh decade (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Minoso, 77, became the first player to play professional baseball in seven decades Wednesday night when he took the field for the St. Paul Saints against the Gary Railcats in the independent Northern League.
		Yeah, Minnie used to lead the league in getting hit year after year (before first Ron Hunt and then Don Baylor perfected the art -- Hunt used to PRACTICE getting hit by a pitch!!) Minnie was fearless at the plate, but he didn't whine about it when someone like Early Wynn would drill him.
		Minnie would take a hit for the cause whenever it was needed.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/948173/posts (2589 words)

	State of Illinois Home - IGNN (Illinois Government News Network)
		Born in Havana, Cuba, Minoso was known as the “Cuban Comet,” and was the first Chicago White Sox player to break the color barrier in 1951.
		Minoso finished his rookie year as the American League leader in stolen bases and later on became a three-time Gold Glove outfielder.
		After retiring in 1964, the Sox brought Minoso on to coach from 1976 to 1978 and he retired in 1980.
	www.illinois.gov /PressReleases/ShowPressRelease.cfm?SubjectID=1&RecNum=2299 (506 words)

	Press Point (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Minoso’s sculpture will be the first of a series of five sculptures to be unveiled over the next five years to honor White Sox greats.
		“Minnie Minoso has been the face of White Sox baseball for more than 50 years, which is half of the franchise’s history,” said White Sox chairman Jerry Reinsdorf.
		Minoso batted.298 (1,963-6,579) with 186 home runs and 1,023 RBI over his 17-year Major League career.
	www.sportsfeatures.com /PressPoint/show.php?id=14113 (543 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Just Call Me Minnie: My Six Decades in Baseball (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Minnie tells of his boyhood in the sugar fields of Cuba, racial discrimination in Cuban society, and feelings of be- trayal upon being traded from the Cleveland Indians to the Chicago White Sox in 1951.
		Minnie Minoso succeeds in delivering this unique perspective of baseball, from pre-Castro life in Cuba all the way up to his goal to play Major League Baseball at age 70.
		Minoso's first-hand accounts of the Negro Leagues (from a non african-american), Major League Baseball, (remember the "Go-Go" Chicago WhiteSox?) are priceless, especially in the present tense.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0915611902?v=glance (1327 words)

	Minoso, Orestes - Minnie, Negro League Baseball Player
		Orestes "Minnie" Minoso, a veteran of the Negro Leagues' New York Cubans, where his leadoff spot in the batting order aided the Cubans as they captured the Negro National League pennant and won World Series from the Negro American League's Cleveland Buckeyes.
		Minoso had a sensational rookie year, batting.326 with 173 hits while leading the league in triples and stolen bases.
		A speedy outfielder, Minoso led the American League in steals three consecutive years.
	www.nlbpa.com /minoso__orestes_-_minnie.html (155 words)

	Notes from the Shadows of Cooperstown
		We were spared the sight of Minnie acting out his "cockeyed notion." Mike Veeck was a "smart-aleck son." But Edes was writing with tongue firmly in cheek.
		Minnie is still alive and well and kneeling on deck.
		Minnie faced off with Yoshi Seo of the Thunder Bay Whiskey Jacks -- at 19, Seo was the youngest player in the league, and at least fifty years younger than the batter he faced.
	www.baseball1.com /carney/index.php?storyid=144 (3919 words)

	MLB.com Store - Mounted Memories Chicago White Sox Minnie Minoso Autographed Baseball
		Minnie carried a.298 lifetime batting average with 1963 hits and a.459 slugging percentage, all combined with a solid.848 on base percentage.
		The color 8x10 photo is personally hand signed by Minnie Minoso.
		The Rawlings official Major League baseball is hand signed by Minnie Minoso.
	shop.mlb.com /entry.point?entry=1852313 (222 words)

	USATODAY.com - Age means little to Franco (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Earlier this season, he became the oldest position player to appear in a major league game since Minnie Minoso in 1980, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.
		Minoso was 57 when he pinch-hit for the Chicago White Sox on Oct. 5, 1980.
		However, that was Minoso's first appearance in the big leagues in four years and he hadn't played regularly in 16 seasons.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/baseball/games/2004-06-04-phillies-braves_x.htm (855 words)

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	Sim Dynasty Message Board - Powered by XMB 1.9 Nexus (beta) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Minoso, who retired last year after finally getting a World Series Ring, is now the manager for the Dire Wolves, along with Matt Snedacor, who is player-managing this year.
		Cause I think that would be the best way they could show their appreciation." Minoso as a manger has a winning record against all teams in the AL EXCEPT the Highlanders.
		As a player, Minoso had a career.293 batting average, a.504 slugging percentage, 117 HRs in 2087 at bats, 347 RBIs and 292 runs.
	www.simdynasty.com /forum/viewthread.php?tid=7270 (234 words)

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