Doing a quick search, Bichette's mother (Mariana) is from Brazil. Apparently she was a teenager (19) dating an almost 29 year old Dante Bichette Sr. in 1992, when he was playing in Anaheim. She became pregnant that year and had Dante Bichette Jr. -- currently a career minor league roster filler, who was once considered a top prospect for the Yankees. I saw her last year following the Blue Jays and she looked much younger than Bichette Sr., which she is. On TV she also seemed a bit lighter skinned, kind of reminded me of Neo-con, gun-totting princess Dana Loesch of TV/Tea Party fame?
Until a few minutes ago, I assumed Mrs. Bichette was of Portuguese decent, from Brazil, and tanning quite a bit. Turns out she's the Eurasian daughter of a Chinese-Brazilian man. So unlike Edman and Rapp (half-Chinese), the Bichette boys are probably only a 1/4th Asian. Personally, I consider both white and will root for both as if they are white -- although Dante Jr. is a long-shot to ever be a MLB player? The photo T'Lips posted is the 1st I've ever seen of Dante Jr. and it confirms (to me) what has always been said of him -- he looks exactly like Dante Sr., a white man. Bo, supposedly named after Bo Jackson, has more of a very slight Asian look.
Another notable MLB player that has a "exotic" mother is Michael Conforto of the Mets. Mom is a gold-medal winning swimmer from Hawaii. Kind of looks like an older, shorter version of Tulsi Gabbard. Like Bichette, I have no problem rooting for Conforto. His mom's maiden name was Ruiz, but that is the name of her mother's husband -- not related to her. My guess, like several athletes from Hawaii -- Kurt Gouveia, Shane Victorino and Sid Fernandez, she's of mixed Portuguese decent?
P.S: Shadow, wild story regarding Gardner's stalker. I believe Joe Girardi or Brian Cashman (or both) claimed Gardy was the favorite player of their teen daughters. So, he's more popular than most would expect, among women?
