For Latino players, a sad state of affairs

By Jonathan Mahler / The Bulletin
June 19, 2011

There is no Latin American Jackie Robinson, no single Hispanic ballplayer who lifted his people onto his back and crashed through baseball’s racist barricades.

But there always has to be a first, and many of the game’s historians point to two Cubans, Rafael Almeida and Armando Marsans, who made....

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