From: mjones@watson.ibm.com (Mike Jones)
Subject: Re: Bonilla
Reply-To: mjones@donald.aix.kingston.ibm.com
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fierkelab@bchm.biochem.duke.edu (Eric Roush) writes:
>>>All of these divisions based on race, religion, etc. make me sick.
>>As they should.  Isn't it nice that MLB is finally waking up to
>>their existence?  Isn't it a shame that hiring practices, on and off
>>the field, have been discriminatory for so long?  (Quick: name a
>>light-hitting black outfielder or 1B who lasted 10+ years in the bigs.
>>I bet you can name two dozen white ones.)
>Otis Nixon.
>Darnell Coles
>Henry Cotto

Manny Mota.
Billy Hatcher
Herm Winningham.
Lonnie Smith (not light hitting, but a horror in the field)
Gary Redus
Dion James
Daryl Boston
Vince Coleman (yeah, he's finally started to have a decent OBP)
Cecil Espy
Willie Wilson
Gary Pettis
Milt Thompson
Gary Varsho

OK, I admit to taking a quick browse through the Major League Handbook, but
only after the first 7 or 8. Oh, and there's the all-time light-hitting
black outfielder: Lou Brock. Look it up. And Curt Flood. Cesar Geronimo.
Cesar Cedeno. 

>Note:  These guys may not have reached 10 years yet, but they've got
>to be close.

Likewise for my list. Oh, and a prediction: Milt Cuyler.

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