Esteban covered Luis Arroyo last week, and Pinstripe Alley continues today with the second feature of Hispanic Yankee Greats of Days Past. This week’s edition will cover a player more well-known among anybody who knows anything to do with baseball and the Yankees.
The man of the hour is Jorge Posada. The switch-hitting catcher out of Santurce, Puerto Rico against all odds went from being a 24th-round draft pick into one of the all-time greats, spending all of his 17 seasons as the Yankees’ back-stopper. Posada was born in Puerto Rico, but he’s actually the son of a Cuban father, Jorge Posada Sr.