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Pages in category "African-American baseball players" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,359 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Chicago American Giants, Columbus Blue Birds, Detroit Stars [577] Lou Dials: 1927: 1936: Infielder: Chicago American Giants, Birmingham Black Barons, Memphis Red Sox, Detroit Stars, Homestead Grays, Hilldale Club, Akron Black Tyrites, Cleveland Giants, New York Black Yankees [578] Fernando Díaz: 1945: 1950: Outfielder: New York Cubans [579 ...
Major League Baseball was segregated from 1887 through 1946. The integration of Major League Baseball happened at the beginning of the 1947 MLB season when Jackie Robinson played his first game for the Brooklyn Dodgers. By the 1950s, enough black talent had integrated into the formerly "white" leagues (both major and minor) that the Negro ...
African-American baseball players (2 C, 1,359 P) C. ... Pages in category "African-American baseball people" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
The players below are some of the most notable of those who played Negro league baseball, beginning with the codification of baseball's color line barring African American players (about 1892), past the re-integration in 1946 of the sport, up until the Negro leagues finally expired about 1962. Members of the Baseball Hall of Fame are noted with ...
African-Americans had been excluded from major league baseball since 1884 and from white professional minor league teams since 1889. Following the 1891 season, the Ansonia Cuban Giants, a team composed of African-American players, were expelled from the Connecticut State League, the last white minor league to have a Black team.
Carmelo Anthony - professional basketball player, (African-American mother) [22] [23] Greg Anthony - retired professional basketball player; Cole Anthony - basketball player (African American father) Nate Archibald - former professional basketball player; Jim Ard - former professional basketball player; Gilbert Arenas - retired professional ...
This list consists of players who have appeared in Major League Baseball. Note that the list also includes players who appeared in the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players, which is not universally considered a major league. The list is broken down into a page of each letter to reduce the size.