Two years after Robinson broke baseball’s color barrier, Miñoso became MLB’s first Black-Latino player, appearing in nine games for Cleveland in 1949.īut it wasn’t until an early season trade to the White Sox in 1951 that ‘The Cuban Comet’ received a real shot to play. Hall of Famer Orlando Cepeda called him ‘the Jackie Robinson for all Latinos.’ He’s the one that opened the path for us to get here.” We owe him for who we are right now and what we’ve accomplished. “He was a pioneer among all the Cuban players. Not just because of all the help that he gave me, personally, but because of all the things that he did as a baseball player. Jose Abreu, one of four Cubans on the current White Sox roster, considered Miñoso a mentor and close friend. “But because of him, when they went to bed at night, they had a dream.” “Before him, maybe they could not dream of playing in the big leagues,” noted Orestes Miñoso Arrieta Jr., Minnie’s eldest son. Minnie’s story embodies the American dream.įrom cutting sugar cane on a plantation in Cuba to using baseball as his golden ticket to a better life in the United States, Miñoso carried the hopes of an entire community.
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