Show I PORT PARADE 1 I Ir I 6 By Oscar Fraley r I F I i J. J I Ii YORK June 19 UP UP-If UP If I o 10 habla Espanol youre you're likely ely to have as much dif- dif conversing with Orestes e Minoso linoso as American pitchers have ha pitching to tos to's toi i s 's 5 plenty plent too For l Minnie nnie I moment is hitting a lusty Bich isn't anything much Ithe the top batting average a league league I ht tl know now how your Spanish I mine inc ine is limited to Agua Aguate te manana hasty Luigi armen men Miranda 1 But 1 can ou 00 absolutely that with withe withe e baseball she is hod ho- ho ind w. w d he be owes much of his g g rookie performance to who am much help i Really Confusing White mite Sox have one other and a Venezuelan in addi addi- Shortstop Chico I quel uel uel is from Venezuela I etcher Luis Aloma stems I Cuba The latter is the cent ent of the trio so he acts Things really can if you get an aneter aneter aneter eter for the interpreter ever ver Minoso l is struggling I Hi Spanish-English Spanish diction- diction d while he doesn't hit any- any near near in the grammar ment ent he manages to get across Currently he is ting between third base basee e outfield playing mostly garden because the Sox Ho o without that big bat But Minnie 1 manages to make it perfectly clear that hed he'd rather be in where the fireworks are Stand Around The outfield is kay ho-kay he pronounces with a glint of or flashing flashing flash flash- ing gold teeth But the business business business busi busi- ness out there she nos so much If II no balls come all the time lime its it's with you the stand around The slender year old slugger slugger slugger slug slug- ger has two heroes One a longtime longtime longtime long long- time idol is Hank Bank Greenberg of the Cleveland Indians The other is who is well on his way to being the shortstop in baseball I Greenberg I like the longtime longtime long time Minoso l relates I remember remember remember re re- re- re member when hes he's go for breaking breaking break break- break I ing the record and hits the 58 homers I pull him good Poor fella He no can ean did As for Minnie linnie glows when he approves real good But despite his conversational con ups pop-ups Minnie is doing great for a lad off a Cuban sugar cane plantation who quit high school and went off to conquer el bets beis- I I hol bol with borrowed from his dadd daddy I INot Not Sorry Y Yet ot My father he lie tell me I be sorry if I school Minnie l recalled But I tell heem I got gotto gotto gotto to play I not sorry yet yet So Minnie drove over to Havana Havana Havana Ha Ha- vana and with the wares he learned in high school got a job as an infielder in the Cuban League A year later in 1946 he was signed to play in III the Negro leagues Late in 1948 the Cleveland Indians signed him I and send him to Dayton Minnie l responded by hitting J The next year he batted ifor for San Diego and last year had hada a brief trial before being sent j hack back This time he hit stole stol i 30 bases with a pair of real hot hoti i i feet and battered 20 home runs i This Spring with the Indians he heI I hit lilt and then went to Chicago after the season opened in a complex trade among the As A's Indians and White Sox Since then he has been terrific a a key slugger in the Chicago attack His ambition is to own owna a Havana motel and the way heis heis he heis is hitting it will be quite a string of or car cabins To put it in his own words Minnie Minnie hes he's ho ho hokay kay |