Minnie Minoso
Posted in Uncategorized on 01/18/2005 12:21 pm by admin
Chicago White Sox Players Past and Present?
Just a little question for my fellow White Sox fans. What would your dream White Sox team look like?
My 25 man White Sox roster would be:
Infield Starters:
3B Robin Ventura
SS Luis Aparicio
2B Nellie Fox
1B Paul Konerko
C Carlton Fisk
Outfield Starters:
LF Shoeless Joe Jackson
CF Lance Johnson
RF Magglio Ordonez
Designated Hitter:
Frank Thomas ( Thome is great as well but, he hasn’t been a White Sox for long, I will go with the long time White Sox over the short term White Sox)
Starting Rotation:
Ted Lyons
Jack McDowell
Tim Belcher
Billy Pierce
Wilson Alverez
Closer:
Roberto Hernandez
Bench:
Ozzie Guillen
Minnie Minoso
Harold Baines
Luke Appling
Sandy Alomar Jr.
Alex Cintron
Bullpen:
Bobby Jenks
Bobby Thigpen
LaMar Hoyt
Lefty Williams
This is not an All-Time roster for me but a dream roster with players from the different eras of the team.
These are just some of my favorite players from the team.
One change I’d definitely make in your starting lineup would be to bench Nellie Fox in favor of Eddie Collins. Fox is a great player, but Eddie Collins is up there with names like Honus Wagner and Frankie Frisch when it comes to all-time greats.
I’d also probably bench Lance Johnson, move Jackson to center, and get Minoso in the starting lineup…..Johnson is good, but not that good.
My biggest change would be with the rotation. Eddie Cicotte, Ed Walsh and Red Faber would displace Alvarez, Belcher and McDowell.
A Conversation With Baseball Legend Minnie Minoso
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Just Call Me Minnie: My Six Decades in Baseball $17.00 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 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 … |
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Minnie and the Mick: The Go-Go White Sox Challenge the Fabled Yankee Dynasty, 1951 to 1964 $25.00 Through careful research and interviews with over 50 key players and managers, Chicago Tribune sportswriter Bob Vanderberg recaptures all the excitement of the passionate AL play between the scrappy Chicago White Sox and the dynasty of the New York Yankees…. |
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1977 Topps # 232 Minnie Minoso RB Chicago White Sox Baseball Card $2.95 … |
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Minnie Minoso Autographed Baseball | Details: Mr. White Sox Inscription $48.99 This baseball has been personally hand signed by the Chicago White Sox third baseman Minnie Minoso with the inscription “Mr. White Sox.” In his Major League career, and despite not playing regularly until he was 28 because of his race, Miñoso hit for a .298 batting average, with 186 home runs, 1023 RBI, 1136 runs, 1963 hits, 336 doubles, 83 triples, 205 stolen bases, 814 walks and 192 hit by pitc… |
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Autographed Minnie Minoso Ball – Official Major League Cuban Comet w Glass Case – Autographed Baseballs $129.58 Minnie Mioso is a former star left fielder in Major League Baseball. He had earlier been a standout third baseman in the Negro Leagues, and would later play several seasons in Mexico. He was nicknamed “The Cuban Comet” as well as “Mr. White Sox”, and while playing in Mexico was “El Charro Negro” “The Black Cowboy”. He is one of just two players in Major League history to play in five separate deca… |