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However, in 2008, about 8.5% of Major League Baseball players were African American (who make up about 13% of the US population), and 29.1% were Hispanics of any race (compared with about 16% of the US population). [20] In 2020, less than 5% of the National Hockey League (NHL) players are black or of mixed black heritage. [21]
Mays' hit total goes to 3,293, up 10 with stats from his 1948 season with the Birmingham Black Barons Miñoso joins the 2,000-hit club, gaining 150 hits from his time with the New York Cubans
As early as 1910, Foster started talking about reviving the concept of an all-black league. The one thing he was insistent upon was that black teams should be owned by black men. This put him in direct competition with Strong. After 1910, Foster renamed his team the Chicago American Giants to appeal to a larger fan base.
First African American inducted to the Basketball Hall of Fame as a player: Bill Russell (See also: Harlem Renaissance, 1963; Bob Douglas, 1972; Clarence Gaines, 1982) First African-American manager in Major League Baseball: Frank Robinson (Cleveland Indians) First African American to play in a men's major golf championship: Lee Elder (The Masters)
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.
2009 Major League Baseball All-Star Game; 2009 American League Central tie-breaker game; 2009 American League Championship Series; 2009 American League Division Series; 2009 Arizona Diamondbacks season; 2009 Atlanta Braves season
The Eastern Colored League (ECL) had been the eastern of two major Negro leagues from 1923 through 1927 until its collapse during the 1928 season. Next winter the American Negro League was established by five former ECL teams—the Bacharach Giants of Atlantic City, the Baltimore Black Sox, the traveling Cuban Stars, the Hilldale Club of Darby, Pennsylvania, and the Lincoln Giants of New York ...
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 ...