Did any of you know that Ted William's mother was Mexican?
Williams addressed this in his autobiography. He spent time as a child with his grandmother, who didn't speak English. Because of prejudices against Latinos in his day he downplayed his ethnicity, or risk being blackballed from the game. As a result during his career he had to avoid many of his Mexican cousins and relatives.
By the way, Reggie Jackson is part Latino too.
About ten years ago Major League Baseball announced their all-time Latino team, which is an amazing collection of talent in aperiod of time. Williams was not included in this list, but Keith Hernandez was even though Williams is more Latino than Hernandez.
