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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.
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.
Pages in category "African-American baseball players" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,364 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
It’s 2024, and that six percent of all MLB players is Black seems a little low. Because it is. There are talented Black American players who want to play baseball, and MLB must spend its own ...
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:
St. Louis Giants, New York Lincoln Giants, Chicago American Giants, Indianapolis ABCs, Hilldale Daisies, Washington Potomacs, Harrisburg Giants, Baltimore Black Sox, Atlantic City Bacharach Giants, Brooklyn Eagles, Washington Black Senators, New York Cubans
Jackie Robinson made history when he took the field for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, becoming the first Black man to play in the MLB’s modern era. Robinson was a top-notch athlete, winning the ...