Tampa Bay Rays' all-Latino starting lineup of hitters makes MLB history

The MLB celebrates Roberto Clemente Day each year. Traditionally, only those who have been nominated for or won the Clemente Award, players of Puerto Rican descent, and those who wore the number the previous year are permitted to don a 21 on their jersey, MLB.com reported.

But the Rays requested an exception from the league, asking that every Latino player and coach on its roster be able to wear Clemente's number. "Our guys were pretty passionate about it and said, 'Look, we want to represent it in our own way,'" Rays manager Kevin Cash said, according to MLB.com. Tampa Bay Rays third baseman Yandy Diaz celebrates a three run homer as the Toronto Blue Jays play the Tampa Bay Rays at Rogers Centre in Toronto on Sept. 15, 2022.All players and coaches on the Pittsburgh Pirates and the New York Mets also wore Clemente's number during their Thursday matchup, because Clemente played for the Pirates for 18 years.

While on the team, he recorded his 3,000th hit, and later became the first Latin American to be inducted into the Hall of Fame, according to MLB.com. Clemente died in a plane crash in 1972 while he was on his way to Nicaragua to deliver emergency relief supplies.

I am confused. Why is this being celebrated? I thought diversity was a good thing.

And they wonder why they can't sell tickets

Wasn't this done in Houston 20 years ago? It won't be in ANY history books.

Does anyone care about baseball?

Will Desantis be flying them down to Martha's Vineyard? Or do they need to add a few dozen scared children to qualify?

I thought you WOKE networks used the word Latinx?

Still valid today.

Weird. I thought the Marlins have been doing that for years as part of their marketing.

It went from having virtue signaling signs in their front yard to NOT IN MY BACK YARD the very nanosecond it came time to BE that example.

Is that diversity?

Maybe they should use their platforms to condemn the Gov actions against their bros and sis.

The reason it was the first in history just became suspect . God knows we’ve got plenty of great Latino players. Doesn’t seem like it would be uncommon for an occasional Latino starting line up

Dont you mean LatinX? Racists.

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