MINNEAPOLIS — Baseball's All-Star Game was played in Minnesota for the first time in 1965. There were 53 players designated as All-Stars, including those replaced due to injury. Eight of these players came from Latin America and 14 were American-born Black players.
Eleven of the Black players represented the National League. In 2014, I had a chance to ask Willie Mays if the '65 team with all those wonderful Black stars was the greatest ever assembled.
"What made that team any different than the ones we put on the field for quite a few years?" Mays replied. "Those were all the Greatest Team Ever."
