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Ferguson Jenkins in 1991
The first latin major league baseball player was Louis Castro.
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Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson and Walter Johnson were the first players all inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1936.Jackie Robinson in 1962.
Christy Mathewson, who was inducted into the baseball hall of fame in 1936. He was buried at Lewisburg Cemetary in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania on October 10, 1925.
first woman inducted into baseball hall of fame.
Babe Ruth First HOF YankeeBabe Ruth was one of the first five players to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1936 when it opened.
No ... the first Latin born player to win the World Series was pitcher Dolf Luque (born in Havana, Cuba) who was a member of the Cincinnati Reds that defeated the Chicago White Sox in the 1919 World Series.
It was Jackie Robinson, who played for the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1947 to 1956. He was elected to Cooperstown in 1962, his first year of eligibility.
Venezuelan shortstop Chico Carrasquel was the first Latin American player to play in an MLB All-Star game.
Reggie Jackson was inducted into the MLB Hall of Fame in 1993, on his first ballot with 93.6% of the vote.