HOF Golden Era Results

rats60 · #1 02-09-2015, 01:08 PM

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Originally Posted by brian1961

Minnie Minoso belongs in the Baseball Hall of Fame. He may not wear a World Series ring, but his name rings loud and strong among us who have studied his contributions to the Chicago White Sox and Latin people, beginning at the not so tender age of, what was it, 29!?!

Minoso's major league debut was at the age of 23.

packs · #2 02-09-2015, 01:14 PM

I don't think Minoso was a better player than Mattingly or Larry Walker and neither of them will probably ever get in.

Chris-Counts · #3 02-09-2015, 01:45 PM

Regardless how old Minnie was when he broke in — more than one birth date been published — he was good enough in 1946 to bat leadoff for the New York Cubans when they won the Negro League World Series. He didn't get a chance to play regularly in the majors until 1951.

brian1961 · #4 02-10-2015, 12:19 PM

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Originally Posted by rats60

Minoso's major league debut was at the age of 23.

First off, the birth date of Minoso is up in the air, like that of Satchel Paige. I have always gone by my 1964 Chicago White Sox yearbook entry for Minnie, which lists his birthday as November 29, 1922. What Cleveland offered him in 1949 was a cup o' coffee. His genuine first year of play was 1951, so if the yearbook date is correct, I was off by one year. He was 28, the same late age as when Jackie Robinson began his major league career. ---Brian Powell

btcarfagno · #5 02-10-2015, 12:49 PM

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Originally Posted by brian1961

First off, the birth date of Minoso is up in the air, like that of Satchel Paige. I have always gone by my 1964 Chicago White Sox yearbook entry for Minnie, which lists his birthday as November 29, 1922. What Cleveland offered him in 1949 was a cup o' coffee. His genuine first year of play was 1951, so if the yearbook date is correct, I was off by one year. He was 28, the same late age as when Jackie Robinson began his major league career. ---Brian Powell

If the 1922 birth date is correct, his age 23 and 24 seasons in the Negro Leagues weren't anything to write home about. Much more understandable numbers if he was 20 and 21 at the time however. Not sure what his winter league stats looked like in Cuba over these years.

Tom C

vintagehofrookies · #6 02-28-2015, 09:19 AM

nice interview w/ Minnie

HOF is a joke until Minnie gets in

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