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Pages in category "African-American baseball players" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,377 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
* Major League Baseball recognizes Curt Roberts as the Pirates' first Black player; however, Carlos Bernier of Puerto Rico, also a Black man, debuted on April 22, 1953. [5] ‡ Thompson and Irvin broke in with the Giants during the same game on July 8, 1949. Thompson was the starting third baseman, and Irvin pinch hit in the eighth. [1]
By the 1950s, enough black talent had integrated into the formerly "white" leagues (both major and minor) that the Negro leagues themselves had become a minor league circuit. Below is a list of 52 players who played for major Negro league teams up to 1950 and eventually saw playing time for a Major League team.
As Major League Baseball celebrates Jackie Robinson Day the current percentage of its rosters that features Black players creeps closer to the same figure when Jackie broke baseball’s color ...
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 ...
Zion Rose is well aware that the percentage of Black players in Major League Baseball has been on the decline for decades. Rose was one of more than 300 players of all backgrounds in Phoenix this ...
Over the next three minutes, Jackson recalled the indignity and outrage of just trying to exist as a Black baseball player in Alabama in 1967. Jackson remembered getting barred from restaurants ...
New York Black Yankees, Washington Black Senators, Pittsburgh Crawfords, Atlanta Black Crackers [494] James Crump: 1921: 1923: Second baseman: Hilldale Club, Brooklyn Royal Giants, Bacharach Giants [495] Jimmie Crutchfield: 1930: 1941: Outfielder: Birmingham Black Barons, Indianapolis ABCs, Pittsburgh Crawfords, Newark Eagles, Chicago American ...