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First African-American Major League Baseball umpire: Emmett Ashford; First African-American NFL broadcaster: Lowell Perry (CBS, on Pittsburgh Steelers games) [41] [42] (See also: 1957) First team with 5 African American starters to win the NCAA basketball tournament: 1965–66 Texas Western Miners basketball team
Baseball statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference Black Baseball Stats and Seamheads "A century ago, Bobby Marshall made history in NFL's first game, Bobby Marshall, a 40-year-old Black lawyer from Minneapolis, played in the NFL's first game," by Mark Craig, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Oct. 4, 2020; Bobby Marshall at Find a Grave
* 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]
He was elected on the first ballot, becoming the first black player inducted into the Cooperstown museum. [1] [227] Robinson as an ABC sports announcer, 1965. In 1965, Robinson served as an analyst for ABC's Major League Baseball Game of the Week telecasts, the first black person to do so. [228]
First African-American Major League Baseball umpire: Emmett Ashford; First African-American NFL broadcaster: Lowell W. Perry [citation needed] (CBS, on Pittsburgh Steelers games) (See also: 1957) Bill Russell First African-American fire commissioner of a major U.S. city: Robert O. Lowery of the New York City Fire Department
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.
When Ron Torbert and his crew take the field Thursday, they'll make NFL history. For the first time, an all-Black on-field and replay crew will officiate an NFL game, the league announced Thursday.
Major League Baseball began the tradition of an "All-Star" exhibition game between the stars of the American League and National League in 1933. Encouraged by the success of the white game, Gus Greenlee organized a black All-Star game at the end of the 1933 season. This game was to feature the top talent from the western region against the top ...