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Minnie Miñoso baseball card, 1955
Minnie Miñoso batted a .320 average in the 1954 season with the Chicago White Sox.
The Cuban Revolution
The Cuban Revolution of the 1950s left diplomatic relations between Cuba and the United States strained. Cuban baseball players who chose to play professionally in the United States had to defect and could not return to Cuba; exit visas were often denied to their families. |