Fansided · May 10, 2015
Your Red Sox of 2018: Rafael Devers
Imagine having no money, being young – say 17 or 18 years-old, no cultural understand, no grasp of the language and having your future employment being able to adapt while immersed in this new experience.
This is what Hispanic players faced in the 1950s and even up to the present. In the 1950s you would read stories about players who eventually became successful discussing their difficulties. No one on the team speaking Spanish and their own inability to just get the basics such as food and laundry. Pedro Ramos, the fine Cuban pitchers with the old Washington Senators, talked about eating the same meal every day for months since it was all he knew.
Times have changed.
