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.
Contents
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 | Date[1] |
|---|---|---|
| Jackie Robinson † | Brooklyn Dodgers, NL | April 15, 1947 |
| Larry Doby † | Cleveland Indians, AL | July 5, 1947 |
| Hank Thompson | St. Louis Browns, AL | July 17, 1947 |
| Monte Irvin † | New York Giants, NL | July 8, 1949 |
| Hank Thompson | New York Giants, NL | July 8, 1949 |
| Sam Jethroe | Boston Braves, NL | April 18, 1950 |
| Minnie Miñoso | Chicago White Sox, AL | May 1, 1951 |
| Bob Trice | Philadelphia Athletics, AL | September 13, 1953 |
| Ernie Banks † | Chicago Cubs, NL | September 17, 1953 |
| Curt Roberts* | Pittsburgh Pirates, NL | April 13, 1954 |
| Tom Alston | St. Louis Cardinals, NL | April 13, 1954 |
| Nino Escalera | Cincinnati Reds, NL | April 17, 1954 |
| Chuck Harmon[2] | Cincinnati Reds, NL | April 17, 1954 |
| Carlos Paula | Washington Senators, AL | September 6, 1954 |
| Elston Howard | New York Yankees, AL | April 14, 1955 |
| John Kennedy | Philadelphia Phillies, NL | April 22, 1957 |
| Ozzie Virgil, Sr.[3] | Detroit Tigers, AL | June 6, 1958 |
| Pumpsie 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
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- 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
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