New York—The majority of people reading this article probably never saw “Minnie” Miñoso play baseball. Many may have never heard his name. Saturnino Orestes “Minnie” Armas Miñoso Arrieta was a great baseball player. He was the only professional player to suit up and enter a ballgame in each of seven consecutive decades. He was one [...]
The Cuban Cultural Center of New York (CCCNY) [El Centro Cultural Cubano de Nueva York] presented its 10th Congress on Saturday at the McNally Auditorium of Fordham University’s Law School. The all-day event, from 8 AM until 8 PM, was held at an appropriate site as Esteban Bellán, the acknowledged “Father of Cuban Baseball’, graduated [...]
New York—Although it is impossible to review nearly 150 years of history in a single day, the nine hours of the conference between the honoring of Esteban Bellán at 9 AM and the tribute to Orestes “Minnie” Miñoso at 7 PM at Saturday’s X Congress of the Centro Cultural Cubano de Nueva York at Fordham [...]