Latino Veterans and Baseball: From the Battle Fields to the Baseball Fields

By San Bernardino County Sun

Pomona, Sep 05, 2013 (Menafn – San Bernardino County Sun – McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) –Although they served in the United States Armed Forces, the veterans who spoke at Cal Poly Pomona on Wednesday came to speak about their time wearing other uniforms.

About a dozen Mexican-American veterans who played baseball in the military are the focus of a new exhibit at the university library, “Mexican Americans in the Military, 1930s-1970s: From the Battle Fields to the Baseball Fields.” The exhibit is a project of Cal State San Bernardino’s Latino Baseball History Project.

“About six years ago, we established the Latino Baseball History Project,” said Richard Santillan, professor emeritus in the Ethnic and Women’s Studies Department at Cal Poly Pomona, who serves on the advisory board for the project. “A number of us who had a great deal of interest in Mexican-American history, as well as baseball, decided to promote the contributions Mexican-Americans have made in all facets of baseball — Major League Baseball, women in baseball — and we decided this year to salute Mexican-Americans who played baseball in the military.”

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[Photo courtesy John M. Pfau library]

 

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