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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 leagues themselves had become a minor league circuit.
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 Brooklyn Dodgers broke the 63-year color line when they started future Hall of Famer Jackie Robinson at first base on Opening Day, April
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.
The History Channel has ordered a new documentary from producer Stanley Nelson and Major League Baseball, focusing on the Black baseball players who followed Jackie Robinson after the legendary ...
Rickey selected Robinson from a list of promising black players and interviewed him for possible assignment to Brooklyn's International League farm club, the Montreal Royals. [78] Rickey was especially interested in making sure his eventual signee could withstand the inevitable racial abuse that would be directed at him.
Jackie Robinson‡ 1945: 1945: Shortstop: Kansas City Monarchs [475] Jacob Robinson: 1947: 1947: Third baseman: Chicago American Giants [476] James Robinson: 1952: 1958: Second baseman: Philadelphia Stars, Indianapolis Clowns, Kansas City Monarchs [477] James D. Robinson: 1898: 1905: Pitcher: Cuban X-Giants, Brooklyn Royal Giants [478] Neal ...
This List of Negro league baseball champions includes champions of black baseball prior to the organization of any traditional Negro league and goes through to the collapse of segregated baseball after Jackie Robinson broke the baseball color line in 1946. Champions include self-declared, regional and (later) league champions, but is limited to ...
On June 4, 1972, the Dodgers retired Campanella's uniform number 39 alongside Jackie Robinson's number 42 and Sandy Koufax's number 32. [35] In 1999, Campanella ranked number 50 on The Sporting News' list of the 100 Greatest Baseball Players, [36] and was a nominee for the Major League Baseball All-Century Team.