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Saturnino(Orestes)"Minnie"Miñoso formerly Arrieta aka Armas

Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]

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Biography

Minnie Miñoso was born about 1925 in Cuba.

He passed away in Chicago, Illinois in 2015. He was the son of Carlos Arrieta and Cecilia Armas. ^[1] Minnie Miñoso was one of the first African-American Major League Baseball Players. He began his career in the Cuban Negro League, then joined the New York Cubans, one of the teams in the American version of a Negro League.

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^[2] After the color barriers began to fall in 1951, he became the first black Cuban in the major leagues. He was a rookie for the Cleveland Indians. ^[3] He eventually was the first black pla