68 Facts About Minnie Minoso

Minnie Minoso began his baseball career in the Negro leagues in 1946 and became an All-Star third baseman with the New York Cubans.

Minnie Minoso was signed by the Cleveland Indians of Major League Baseball after the 1948 season as baseball's color line fell.

Minnie Minoso was an American League All-Star for seven seasons and a Gold Glove winner for three seasons when he was in his 30s.

Minnie Minoso was the AL leader in triples and stolen bases three times each and in hits, doubles, and total bases once each.

Willie Mays and Minnie Minoso have been widely credited with leading the resurgence of speed as an offensive weapon in the 1950s.

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Minnie Minoso was particularly adept at reaching base, leading the AL in times hit by pitch a record ten times, and holding the league mark for career times hit by pitch from 1959 to 1985.

Minnie Minoso was one of the most popular and dynamic players in White Sox franchise history.

Minnie Minoso helped the "Go-Go" White Sox become one of the premier teams of the 1950s and 1960s.

Minnie Minoso left the major leagues following the 1964 season, but went on playing and managing in Mexico through 1973.

Minnie Minoso rejoined the White Sox as a coach, and made brief but highly publicized player appearances in 1976 and 1980.

Minnie Minoso became the third player to get a hit after the age of 50 and the second player to appear in the major leagues in five decades.

Minnie Minoso was elected to the Cuban Baseball Hall of Fame in Exile in 1983, and to the Mexican Professional Baseball Hall of Fame in 1996.

In 2014, Minnie Minoso appeared for the second time as a candidate on the National Baseball Hall of Fame's Golden Era Committee election ballot for possible Hall of Fame consideration in 2015.

Minnie Minoso was born in Perico, Cuba near Havana, the son of Carlos Arrieta and Cecilia Armas.

Minnie Minoso's father worked in the fields of the sugarcane plantation on which the family lived.

Minnie Minoso's mother had four other children from a previous marriage, and had the surname "Minoso" from her first husband.

Minnie Minoso grew up playing baseball with two of his brothers and in fact managed his own team while working on his father's plantation, finding players and the necessary equipment himself.

Minnie Minoso played professional baseball as a third baseman in Cuba and in the Negro leagues.

Minnie Minoso signed a contract with the team from the borough of Marianao in 1945 for $150 per month, and moved into the Negro leagues with the New York Cubans the next season and doubled his monthly salary.

Minnie Minoso was the starting third baseman for the East in the 1947 All-Star Game, and again in 1948.

Minnie Minoso remained with the Cubans until signing with the Cleveland Indians organization during the 1948 season and starting his minor league career with the Dayton Indians of the Central League, batting.

Minnie Minoso had little further chance to make an impression, however; the Indians were signing black players more aggressively than any other team in the American League, but coming off their victory in the 1948 World Series, they were the strongest team in baseball.

Minnie Minoso was sent to the San Diego Padres of the Pacific Coast League for the rest of the 1949 season and all of 1950, batting.

Minnie Minoso rejoined the Indians to start the 1951 season, but the team still could not find a spot for him in the lineup, as the Indians had Al Rosen at third base and Larry Doby, Dale Mitchell and Bob Kennedy in the outfield.

Minnie Minoso was an instant star, maintaining a batting average over.

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Minnie Minoso was named for the first time to the AL All-Star roster becoming – along with White Sox teammate Chico Carrasquel and Washington Senators pitcher Connie Marrero – one of the first Latin Americans ever named to an All-Star team.

Minnie Minoso finished fourth in the year's Most Valuable Player voting.

Minnie Minoso was regarded as such an outstanding all-around player that Yankees outfielder Mickey Mantle acquired the nickname "The Commerce Comet" because he reminded observers of "The Cuban Comet".

When batting, Minnie Minoso had a tendency to crowd the plate, which made him particularly susceptible to "beanball" pitches.

Minnie Minoso followed up with several years of outstanding play for Chicago.

Minnie Minoso led the AL in steals in both 1952 and 1953, and topped the league with 18 triples and 304 total bases in 1954, appearing in the All-Star Game all three years and starting in 1954.

Minnie Minoso led AL left fielders with three double plays in 1953, and the following year led all major league left fielders with 13 assists and three double plays.

Minnie Minoso led AL left fielders in putouts for the first time with 267.

Minnie Minoso represented a rare power threat for the Sox; due to the dimensions of Comiskey Park, the White Sox were the only major league team who did not have a player hit 100 home runs for them prior to World War II.

Minnie Minoso topped AL left fielders again with 282 putouts and 10 assists in 1956, and with two double plays in 1957.

Minnie Minoso led the league in triples again in 1956 with 11, and in doubles with 36 in 1957.

Minnie Minoso was then ejected after throwing his bat at Umont, but apologized profusely after the game, saying he was unaware of the rule that any pitch in that situation must be called a strike regardless of its location; he served a three-game suspension.

Minnie Minoso was deeply disappointed over having missed playing for the White Sox during their 1959 pennant-winning season, and was thrilled to be traded back to Chicago in a seven-player deal in December, with Norm Cash being the top player sent in return.

Minnie Minoso had his last great season in 1960 – he made his last All-Star appearances, led the AL with 184 hits, had 105 RBIs, batted over.

Minnie Minoso had perhaps his best defensive season, leading all major league left fielders in putouts, assists and double plays and winning his third and final Gold Glove Award.

Minnie Minoso's contract was sold to the Washington Senators prior to the 1963 season, and after hitting.

Minnie Minoso signed with the White Sox before the 1964 campaign, but appeared in only 30 games that year, batting.

Minnie Minoso continued to play in the Mexican League for the next eight seasons.

In 1976, Minnie Minoso was called out of retirement, becoming a first and third base coach for three seasons for the White Sox.

In 1980, Minnie Minoso, age 54, was activated again to play for the White Sox, and was a pinch hitter in two games, again against the Angels.

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Minnie Minoso became the fourth-oldest player ever to play in the majors, behind Nick Altrock, who at age 57, pinch hit in 1933, Charley O'Leary, who at age 58, pinch hit in 1934, and Satchel Paige, who at age 59, pitched three shutout innings in one game in 1965.

Minnie Minoso joined Altrock as just the second player in major league history to play in five decades ; out of the players who played in the major leagues in the 1940s, Minnie Minoso was the last one to appear in a major league game.

In 1990, Minnie Minoso was scheduled to make an appearance with the minor league Miami Miracle of the Florida State League and become the only professional to play in six decades; however, MLB overruled the Miracle on the idea.

Minnie Minoso did so while wearing the new uniform debuted by the White Sox that day, his familiar number 9 on the back.

In 1993, a 67-year-old Minnie Minoso made an appearance with the independent St Paul Saints of the Northern League.

Minnie Minoso returned to the Saints in 2003 and drew a walk, thus becoming the only player to appear professionally in seven different decades.

Minnie Minoso lived in Chicago where he represented the Chicago White Sox as "Mr White Sox".

Minnie Minoso married Sharon Rice in the 1990s and they have one son, Charles.

Minnie Minoso has three children from a previous marriage, Orestes Jr.

Minnie Minoso became a member of the Chicagoland Sports Hall of Fame in 1994, the Mexican Professional Baseball Hall of Fame in 1996, the Hispanic Heritage Baseball Museum Hall of Fame on August 11,2002, and the Cuban Baseball Hall of Fame in 2014.

Minnie Minoso was inducted into the Baseball Reliquary's Shrine of the Eternals in 2002.

On September 19,2004, Minnie Minoso Day was celebrated at US Cellular Field and there was a pregame unveiling of a Minnie Minoso statue at the field.

Minnie Minoso received the 2011 Jerome Holtzman Award from the Chicago Baseball Museum.

Minnie Minoso died March 1,2015 from a torn pulmonary artery resulting from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Minnie Minoso became eligible for election to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1970 – a year before the Hall began considering players from the Negro Leagues or taking into account the accomplishments of major leaguers in the Negro Leagues – and was dropped from the ballot for insufficient support.

Minnie Minoso was restored to the ballot five years after his final 1980 appearances as a player, and finally began to receive support as a candidate, remaining on the ballot for 14 years before his eligibility expired; however, most of the writers voting by that point had little memory of him during his prime.

Author Stuart Miller makes the case for Minnie Minoso's election based on the wins above replacement statistic, which calculates the number of additional wins a team would get from a player's production compared to having played a replacement-level minor league player at the position.

Minnie Minoso is among the top five AL players in WAR for seven of his MLB seasons, ranking first in WAR for two of those seasons.

Minnie Minoso said that the biggest question for Hall of Fame voters would be how much potential major league production was taken away from Minoso because baseball was not integrated at the outset of his career.

Minnie Minoso was selected to be on the Hall of Fame's Golden Era Committee election ballot in 2011 and 2014.

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In 2011 and 2014, Minnie Minoso received 9 and 8 votes; in 2011, only Ron Santo with 15 votes was elected to the Hall of Fame.

Minnie Minoso was voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame on December 5,2021.

Minnie Minoso was formally inducted on July 24,2022, with his widow Sharon speaking on his behalf.