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‘His contributions will always be remembered’: Hall induction arrives for White Sox icon Minnie Miñoso

Chicago White Sox outfielder Minnie Miñoso poses outside the Comiskey Park dugout on Sept. 3, 1960, in Chicago.

CHICAGO — Pioneer. All-Star. Gold Glover.

And, after all this time, inductee into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Minnie Miñoso’s journey from Cuba to Cooperstown, N.Y., becomes official Sunday when the Chicago White Sox legend joins the Hall of Fame.

The on-field statistics are plentiful for Miñoso, who died in March 2015 at 90, but are only a fraction of the story.

“He was a Hall of Fame person off the field and in the community, especially at home,” his son Charlie Rice-Miñoso said during a phone

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