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Orestes “Minnie” Miñoso at Comiskey Park

Bob Lerner1951-08-29

National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum

National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
Cooperstown, United States

One of a series of portraits of baseball player Minnie Minoso taken as part of a Look magazine photo shoot to illustrate a forthcoming article about the Cuban-born Minoso, the first black ball player to play for the Chicago White Sox.

Label on transparency sleeves reads: AL 58 [Look job number] Aug 29 '51 [date added to Look's library]. Chicago White Sox. Lerner: Photog.

See As Minoso Go, So Go Chicago by Tim Cohane, Look, v. 16, no. 11 (May 20, 1952), p. 52-53 and cover.

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