Justice Batted Last: Ernie Banks, Minnie Miñoso, and the Unheralded Players Who Integrated Chicago's Major League Teams

by Don Zminda

On May 1, 1951, Orestes "Minnie" Mi oso took the field for the Chicago White Sox and broke the color line for Chicago major league baseball. Ernie Banks integrated the Chicago Cubs two years later. The future Hall of Famers began their Chicago baseball careers against the backdrop of a 1951 race riot in suburban Cicero, where a white mob abetted by local police attacked a building that had rented to Black tenants.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252046412
• ISBN13: 9780252046414
• Release Date: March 2025
• Publisher: 3 Fields Books
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.