Funny how the sports media never really mentions him when they speak of the great latinos of baseball.
2006-12-11 12:25:36 · 17 answers · asked by okinaps319 3 in Sports ➔ Baseball
Yes, I knew this. And I agree with you, he was the first Latino baseball player, and since he didn't look Mexican, people don't realize he was. If you ever see pictures of his brother, who looked nothing like him, the brother looked like their father, and he was really dark. I know this from reading Leigh Montville's biography of Ted Williams. Great book.
2006-12-11 12:59:35 · answer #1 · answered by Laura 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I knew that, but does having a Mexican ancestor make one a Latino? Would Ted Williams' children be Latinos? And their children? Where is the point at which it stops?
To Laura (above) : There were major league baseball players from Latin American nations (especially Cuba) long before Ted Williams' day.
2006-12-12 00:08:56 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ted Williams needed to deny his heritage publicy because of the type of racism during that period. He wrote in his 1969 autobiography, "My Turn At Bat":
"if I had had my mother's name, there is no doubt I would have run into problems in those days, the prejudices people had in Southern California."
More information available on the two source links below.
2006-12-11 22:56:57 · answer #3 · answered by Nibiru - 3600 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No! Why wouldn't that ever come out before now that he has been dead for a few years in a freezer. What was the other 1/2? He didn't look mexican.
2006-12-11 20:30:29 · answer #4 · answered by Bella 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
His mother was a U.S. born citizen but had Mexican parents. So Williams had Mexican ancestry, and could be considered Hispanic, but wasn't Mexican himself.
2006-12-12 00:36:57 · answer #5 · answered by JerH1 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
People are told in your country, since kid, that Mexican is a race, suddenly a white Mexican appears, do you think they will accept it?
2006-12-11 22:39:30 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I though he was half popsicle.
And to Jeremy. If he had Mexican ancestors then he is Mexican too.
2006-12-12 09:45:31 · answer #7 · answered by SF Giants 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you're half and half, you can consider yourself to be whatever you want. If he didn't want to be considered latino, that's his choice, not the medias'.
2006-12-12 00:06:13 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I read the biography about him three years and found that out. His Hispanic relatives were in California.
2006-12-11 21:15:17 · answer #9 · answered by ROBERT L O 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
chicano =mexican-american
cool didnt kno dat
2006-12-11 21:39:25 · answer #10 · answered by Miisz.RodRIguEz 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋