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Pages in category "African-American baseball players" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,360 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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.
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.
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 ...
List of Negro league baseball players (S–Z) ... Birmingham Black Barons, Louisville Black Caps, Chicago American Giants, St. Louis Stars [613] Bill Drake: 1915:
Chicago American Giants, Birmingham Black Barons [271] Ted Trent: 1927: 1939: Pitcher: St. Louis Stars, Cuban Stars (West), Homestead Grays, Detroit Wolves, Washington Pilots, New York Black Yankees, Chicago American Giants [272] Bob Trice: 1948: 1950: Pitcher: Homestead Grays [273] Norman Triplett: 1917: 1917: Outfielder: Hilldale Club [274 ...
Desmond Jennings—professional baseball player; Derek Jeter (African-American father)—retired professional baseball player [10] [11] Sam Jethroe—former professional baseball player; Alex Johnson—retired professional baseball player; Charles Johnson—former professional baseball player; Cliff Johnson—former professional baseball player
Roy Campanella (November 19, 1921 – June 26, 1993), nicknamed "Campy", was an American professional baseball player, primarily as a catcher.The Philadelphia native played in the Negro leagues and Mexican League for nine years before entering the minor leagues in 1946.