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The Black Aces are a group of African-American pitchers who have won at least 20 games during a single Major League Baseball (MLB) season. The term comes from the title of a 2007 book by MLB pitcher Mudcat Grant (1935–2021), one of the members of the group. [ 1 ]
Leroy Robert "Satchel" Paige (July 7, 1906 – June 8, 1982) was an American professional baseball pitcher who played in Negro league baseball and Major League Baseball (MLB). ). His career spanned five decades and culminated with his induction into the National Baseball Hall of F
Cy Young, the all-time leader in career wins. This is a list of Major League Baseball (MLB) pitchers with 200 or more career wins. In the sport of baseball, a win is a statistic credited to the pitcher for the winning team who was in the game when his team last took the lead. A starting pitcher must complete five innings to earn a win; if this ...
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 ...
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 .
Blue said his most famous duel was when he faced off against Dock Ellis of the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1971, and they made history as the first and only time two Black pitchers started against each ...
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.
Pitcher: Birmingham Black Barons [96] Bull Barbour: 1921: 1922: First baseman: Pittsburgh Keystones [97] Joaquín Barceló: 1921: 1921: Pitcher: All Cubans [98] Marvin Barker: 1935: 1948: Outfielder / Manager: Newark Dodgers, New York Black Yankees, Philadelphia Stars [99] Al Barks: 1957: 1957: First baseman: New York Black Yankees [100] Bill ...