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African-Americans had been excluded from major league baseball since 1884 and from white professional minor league teams since 1889. 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.
Moses Fleetwood Walker (October 7, 1856 – May 11, 1924), sometimes nicknamed Fleet Walker, was an American professional baseball catcher who, historically, was credited with being the first black man to play in Major League Baseball (MLB).
First African American Major League Baseball player of the modern era: Jackie Robinson (Brooklyn Dodgers). [24] (See also: Moses Fleetwood Walker, 1884) First African-American Major League Baseball player in the American League: Larry Doby (Cleveland Indians). First African American consensus college All-American basketball player: Don ...
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.
Jackie Robinson First African-American Major League Baseball player of the modern era: Jackie Robinson (Brooklyn Dodgers). [175] (See also: William Edward White, 1879; Moses Fleetwood Walker, 1884) First African-American Major League Baseball player in the American League: Larry Doby (Cleveland Indians).
Robinson also was the first black television analyst in MLB and the first black vice president of a major American corporation, Chock full o'Nuts. In the 1960s, he helped establish the Freedom National Bank , an African-American-owned financial institution based in Harlem , New York.
This list consists of players who have appeared in Major League Baseball. Note that the list also includes players who appeared in the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players, which is not universally considered a major league. The list is broken down into a page of each letter to reduce the size.
Moses Fleetwood Walker, possibly the first African-American major league baseball player. The first nationally known black professional baseball team was founded in 1885 when three clubs, the Keystone Athletics of Philadelphia, the Orions of Philadelphia, and the Manhattans of Washington, D.C., merged to form the Cuban Giants. [14]