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Mets take step forward with Samuel; bu JOHN FOX, Press & Sun Bulletin
Topic Started: Feb 16 2006, 06:17 PM (24 Views)
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Why didn't I think to tell them? The New York Mets should have waited eight days instead of announcing their 2006 Binghamton manager on Jan. 24.

It thereby would have become opening day news for Black History Month. Clearly, Juan Milton Romero Samuel IS Binghamton black history.

Samuel (pronounced SAHM-well) hits a daily double in the city's long history of professional baseball- our first black manager, and our first Hispanic manager. In both cases, historic. And, several may suggest, tardy.

The native of the Dominican Republic misses the trifecta of also being Binghamton's first foreign-born manager, only because 1949-50 Triplets skipper George Selkirk's birthplace was 120 miles north of Toronto. (Samuel's hometown, San Pedro de Maconis, a city slightly larger than Syracuse, boasts alumni by the dozen, including pitcher Pedro Martinez and shortstop Jose Reyes of today's Mets, Sammy Sosa et al.)

It appears not completely a coincidence that the parent Mets will be playing their second season under their first black manager, Willie Randolph, and the league's only Latino general manager, Omar Minaya.

It's not a total coincidence, either, that both Minaya and the incoming Binghamton manager are natives of the Dominican Republic.

Professional baseball in Binghamton dates to 12 years after the Civil War, and, despite several gaps, enters its 93rd season in April.


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