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Minnie Minoso: Baseball’s 7-Decade Man 1327962014-05-18+21%3A27%3A25Dean+Hybl

Posted on May 18, 2014 by Dean Hybl

Minnie Minoso

The May Sports Then and Now Vintage Athlete of the Month is the only person in professional baseball history to appear in a game in seven different decades.

Santurnino “Minnie” Minoso made his major league debut with the Cleveland Indians in 1949 and appeared in a major or independent league professional game in each of the following six decades to establish a record that will likely never be broken. Read the rest of this entry →

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