Orestes "Minnie" Minoso
date: label: date made
content: ca 1955
name: label: depicted (sitter)
content: Minoso, Minnie
notes: label: Description
content: Celluloid pinback button featuring an image Chicago White Sox outfielder Orestes “Minnie” Minoso (1924-2015). The button has a ribbon and bat and ball charms attached.
label: Description
content: Cuban-born Minnie Minoso played professional baseball in America, first with the Negro Leagues’ New York Cubans (1946-1948). He joined Major League Baseball’s Cleveland Indians in 1949, becoming the League’s first Afro-Latino player. After time in the minors, Minoso returned to the Indians in 1951, where he was traded to the Chicago White Sox, the team for which Minoso is most remembered. He played for the Southsiders from 1951-1957, 1960-1961 and 1964, and where, after his retirement, he became one of the oldest players to play in the Majors, and one of the few to play in five decades, activated for appearances with the Sox in 1976 and 1980. During his career, Minoso spent two additional seasons in Cleveland (1959-1959) as well as time with the St. Louis Cardinals (1962) and Washington Senators (1963).
label: Description
content: A nine-time All-Star, Minoso led the American League in steals three-times, accumulating 216 bags in his career. A lifetime .299 batter, he collected 2,113 career hits, 195 home runs, and 1,089 runs batted in. In 2022 he was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
label: Description
content: Celluloid pinback button featuring an image Chicago White Sox outfielder Orestes “Minnie” Minoso (1924-2015). The button has a ribbon and bat and ball charms attached.
label: Description
content: Cuban-born Minnie Minoso played professional baseball in America, first with the Negro Leagues’ New York Cubans (1946-1948). He joined Major League Baseball’s Cleveland Indians in 1949, becoming the League’s first Afro-Latino player. After time in the minors, Minoso returned to the Indians in 1951, where he was traded to the Chicago White Sox, the team for which Minoso is most remembered. He played for the Southsiders from 1951-1957, 1960-1961 and 1964, and where, after his retirement, he became one of the oldest players to play in the Majors, and one of the few to play in five decades, activated for appearances with the Sox in 1976 and 1980. During his career, Minoso spent two additional seasons in Cleveland (1959-1959) as well as time with the St. Louis Cardinals (1962) and Washington Senators (1963).
label: Description
content: A nine-time All-Star, Minoso led the American League in steals three-times, accumulating 216 bags in his career. A lifetime .299 batter, he collected 2,113 career hits, 195 home runs, and 1,089 runs batted in. In 2022 he was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Baseball
label: web subject
content: Sports
label: Subject
content: Latino
label: Subject
content: Latinos and Baseball
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content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Dr. Daniel Boorstin
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CL.287874.16
label: accession number
content: 287874
label: catalog number
content: 287874.16
objectType: label: Object Name
content: button, baseball
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: textile, synthetic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: white (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: black (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: orange (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: green (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 3/4 in; 9.525 cm