Ernest "Ernie" Banks (born January 31, 1931 in Dallas, Texas), nicknamed "Mr. Cub", is a former Major League Baseball shortstop ... signed with the Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro American ...
though they were denied admission to the state’s Senior Amateur Championship tournament,” baseball historian Don Zminda writes in Justice Batted Last: Ernie Banks, Minnie Miñoso, and the ...
The shrine to some of baseball ... himself, Ernie Banks, had to be convinced to go to Chicago after falling in love with ...