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Posted By: boxingcardman

Don Newcombe told me a great story about Minoso. While they were all in spring training in Fl the black players had to eat at segregated restaurants while off their teams' facilities. There wasn't a lot of choice so they usually ended up at the same place. Minoso liked the chicken there and the others would take turns distracting him and taking pieces off his plate. Finally, one day Minoso got his plate, spit on each piece and said in a mixture of Spanish and English, in essence, let's see you SOBs take my chicken now!

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