Ask any White Sox fan and they’ll tell you what Minnie Miñoso means to this organization and to the game of baseball. Recently Joe Posnanski, writer for The Athletic, analyzed all the reasons why Miñoso should be elected to the Hall of Fame. The quotes below are excerpts from his piece, accompanied by pictures of Minnie from the White Sox archives. His full story in The Athleticcan be found here.
“The integration of baseball in Chicago is an under-told and enormously important story. Chicago was the second-biggest city in America and one of the centers of African American life.