List of first black Major League Baseball players by team
Below is a list of the first black players in Major League Baseball by team in chronological order, since the abolition of the Baseball color line. During the 1880s, Moses Fleetwood Walker, a black man, had played for the Toledo Blue Stockings of the American Association (his brother Welday Walker also played a few games with the club), and it was essentially against Fleetwood Walker that the line was originally drawn. African-Americans had been excluded from major league baseball since 1884, and from all of professional baseball since 1889.
Key
| † | Elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame |
List
- Only includes players post-1946; for players from pre-color line baseball see Baseball color line#Origins.
- Teams are listed by franchise; i.e., teams that relocated to a new city after already breaking the color line are not listed a second time.
- Expansion teams that joined the National and American Leagues after 1961 have been integrated from their first game and are not listed.
| Player | Team | League | Date[1] |
|---|---|---|---|
| Robinson, JackieJackie Robinson † | Brooklyn Dodgers | NL | April 15, 1947 |
| Doby, LarryLarry Doby † | Cleveland Indians | AL | July 5, 1947 |
| Thompson, HankHank Thompson | St. Louis Browns | AL | July 17, 1947 |
| Irvin, MonteMonte Irvin † | New York Giants | NL | July 8, 1949 |
| Thompson, HankHank Thompson | New York Giants | NL | July 8, 1949 |
| Jethroe, SamSam Jethroe | Boston Braves | NL | April 18, 1950 |
| Miñoso, MinnieMinnie Miñoso | Chicago White Sox | AL | May 1, 1951 |
| Trice, BobBob Trice | Philadelphia Athletics | AL | September 13, 1953 |
| Banks, ErnieErnie Banks † | Chicago Cubs | NL | September 17, 1953 |
| Roberts, CurtCurt Roberts* | Pittsburgh Pirates | NL | April 13, 1954 |
| Alston, TomTom Alston | St. Louis Cardinals | NL | April 13, 1954 |
| Escalera, NinoNino Escalera | Cincinnati Reds | NL | April 17, 1954 |
| Harmon, ChuckChuck Harmon[2] | Cincinnati Reds | NL | April 17, 1954 |
| Paula, CarlosCarlos Paula | Washington Senators | AL | September 6, 1954 |
| Howard, ElstonElston Howard | New York Yankees | AL | April 14, 1955 |
| Kennedy, JohnJohn Kennedy | Philadelphia Phillies | NL | April 22, 1957 |
| Virgil, Sr., OzzieOzzie Virgil, Sr.[3] | Detroit Tigers | AL | June 6, 1958 |
| Green, PumpsiePumpsie Green | Boston Red Sox | AL | July 21, 1959 |
* 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.[4]
See also
- History of baseball in the United States
- Negro league baseball
- List of Negro League baseball players
- List of first black players for European national football teams
References
- ↑ O'Connell, Jack (2007-04-13). "Robinson's many peers follow his lead". MLB.com. Retrieved 2007-10-11.
- ↑ http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20100511&content_id=9962586&vkey=news_cin&fext=.jsp&c_id=cin
- ↑ Tygiel, Jules (1983), Baseball's Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy, New York: Oxford University Press, p. 329, ISBN 0195033000
- ↑ http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/opinion/perspectives/carlos-bernier-more-than-a-footnote-683364/
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