This Saturday is the annual Civil Rights game in MLB. In honor of this game, I will list some of the people who broke barriers in MLB history.
First I will list the first black player for each baseball team in the pre-expansion era(pre-1961). Also note, officially Moses Fleetwood Walker was the first professional black player in 1884 before the banishment of black players.
AL:
Boston Red Sox: Pumpsie Green 7-21-59
Chicago White Sox: Minnie Minoso 5-1-51
Cleveland Indians: Larry Doby 7-5-47
Detroit Tigers: Ozzie Virgil 6-6-58
Kansas City Athletics: Bob Trice 9-13-53
New York Yankees: Elston Howard 4-14-55
St. Louis Browns: Hank Thompson 7-17-47
Washington Senators: Carlos Paula 9-6-54
NL:
Brooklyn Dodgers: Jackie Robinson 4-15-47
Boston Braves: Sam Jethroe 4-18-50
Chicago Cubs: Ernie Banks 9-17-53
Cincinnati Reds: Chuck Harmon
Nino Escalera 4-17-54
New York Giants: Monte Irvin
Hank Thompson 7-8-49
Philadelphia Phillies: John Kennedy 4-22-57
Pittsburgh Pirates: Curt Roberts 4-13-54
St. Louis Cardinals: Tom Alston 4-13-54
1st black coach: Buck O'Neil (Chicago Cubs) 5-29-62
1st black umpire: Emmett Ashford 4-11-66
1st black manager: Frank Robinson (Cleveland Indians) 4-8-75
1st black general manager: Bill Lucas (Atlanta Braves) 1977
1st Japanese player: Masanori Murakami (San Francisco Giants) 9-1-64
1st Black Latino: Minnie Minoso (Cleveland Indians) 4-19-49
1st Latin American: Esteban Bellan(from Cuba) 1871
1st Dominican player: Ozzie Virgil (New York Giants) 9-23-56
1st Cuban Defector: Barbaro Garbey (Detroit Tigers) 4-3-84
1st Venezuelan: Alex Carrasquel (Washington Senators) 4-23-39
1st Puerto Rican: Hiram Bithorn (Chicago Cubs) 4-15-42
1st Mexican: Mel Almada (Boston Red Sox) 9-1-33
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