http://www.nyc-plus.com/nycp7/keithhernandezbeyondthe.html (what is below is in this interview)
**The Keith Hernandez story begins October 20, 1953, in San Francisco, California.
"October 20 - Juan Marichal's birthday, Mickey Mantle's birthday, and mine.
"My father was John Hernandez, Jr., a San Francisco fireman for 25 years and a minor-league baseball player - a first baseman - during the Depression. My older brother Gary, by the way, was [like Keith] an all-American left-handed first baseman."
The Hernandez line goes back to Malaga, Spain.
"My grandfather, John senior, was a Spanish grump. His father was a captain in the Guardia Civil. John senior and his wife Lita foresaw the troubles coming in Europe and fled Spain in 1911. For some reason they went to the Philippines, where they chopped sugar until they caught a boat to Hawaii. They chopped sugar there, and John senior got to be foreman, and they caught a boat to San Francisco, bringing daughter Isabel with them. They proceeded to have five more children, my dad being the youngest.
"I'm the first Hernandez to have diluted blood. My mother, Jacquelyn Jordan Hernandez, a Deep South girl from Beaumont, Texas, was Scots-Irish. Her family had fled persecution in Scotland in the 1600s.
"I hate that 'Mex' and my dad hated it worse. 'Spain!' he'd yell. 'Where is that on the map? Europe!'
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