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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 .
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.
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 ...
The list includes those who played on major Negro league teams prior to integration (and any caliber Negro league team after integration) as well as in Major League Baseball. The list does not include Negro league players who only played in the minor leagues and White Hispanic players who played in both the Negro Leagues and MLB prior to full ...
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 ...
African-American baseball players (2 C, 1,359 P) C. African-American baseball coaches (249 P) M. African-American baseball managers (64 P)
First African-American baseball player to be named the Major League Baseball World Series MVP: Bob Gibson, St. Louis Cardinals [45] First African-American to join the Ladies Professional Golf Association: Althea Gibson; First African-American baseball player to be named the captain of a Major League Baseball team: Willie Mays, San Francisco ...
Several other black American players joined the International League the following season, including pitchers George Stovey and Robert Higgins, but 1888 was the last season blacks were permitted in that or any other high minor league. Moses Fleetwood Walker, possibly the first African-American major league baseball player