¶ … Latino players in major league baseball. Specifically, it will concentrate on information about the players' struggles, fame, and fans.
LATINO BASEBALL PLAYERS
Latinos playing professional baseball in the United States is nothing new. Puerto Rican Roberto Clemente, the first Latin American to enter baseball's Hall of Fame, began his major league career in 1954 with a Dodger farm team in Montreal, and there were others before him, but not many. "Thus far, Puerto Rico had produced few major league players, and none of superstar caliber. Hiram Gabriel Bithorn had joined the Chicago Cubs in 1942 and pitched four seasons. Luis Rodriguez Olmo became a popular outfielder for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1943, winding up his big league career in 1951 with the Boston Braves. But they were light-skinned Latins who had passed through the game's color bar" (Wagenheim 33).
The Latinos really started showing up in the big leagues in the 1980s, and one of the most famous of that era was Mexican Fernando Valenzuela, who pitched for the Los Angeles Dodgers, and had a mean fast ball, and unusual eyes to the sky delivery. Fernando was one of the first really popular Latino baseball players, and his success brought a league of Latinos to play in the U.S.
By the 2002 World Series, Latinos were such a hit in baseball; the series was broadcast in 14 languages to 200 countries, including number Spanish-language stations...
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