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Jackie Robinson, Minnie Miñoso murals defaced with racial slurs and swastikas in Miami

Robinson and Miñoso both occupy pioneering roles, not just in MLB history, but in the fight for civil rights. Robinson broke baseball's color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, while Miñoso was the first Afro-Latino player in MLB and the first Black player in the history of the Chicago White Sox.

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Murals of Jackie Robinson, Minnie Miñoso defaced with racist graffiti; Miami police launch investigation

Murals of Major League Baseball legends Jackie Robinson and Minnie Miñoso at Dorsey Park in Miami's Overtown neighborhood have been defaced by vandals with racist graffiti. The defacement of the murals at Dorsey Park,

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Jackie Robinson, Minnie Miñoso murals desecrated with hate speech in Miami

The paintings are at Dorsey Park, a historic Negro League park in a neighborhood known as the 'Harlem of the South' during segregation.

Hate-fueled vandalism shocks Overtown as community rallies to restore historic murals

The vandalism occurred sometime Sunday on murals honoring legendary Black baseball players Jackie Robinson and Minnie Miñoso.

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Sports Update: From Tribute to Tragedy - A Week in Review

This week in sports, Tom Rafferty of the Cowboys died, Carlos Alcaraz advanced in tennis, a Jackie Robinson mural was ...

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Chicago's 1st black major league baseball player Minoso dies

Minnie Minoso, who hit a two-run home run in his first at-bat when he became major league baseball's first black player in Chicago in 1951, has died, the Cook County medical examiner said Sunday.

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