Yes ... Jackie's first All-Star game was in 1949 and he started at second base and batted second in the order. He played the entire game and had 1 hit in 4 at bats.
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Jackie Robinson
Allstar weekend started in 2007. their name was "Allstar" at first and they had a few different band members but then it changed to Allstar weekend.
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How many times must this question be answered. Jackie Robinson was the first African American in the modern era to play Major League Baseball when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers to start the 1947 season.
After he retired from baseball, he became an executive for Chock-Full-O-Nuts.
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Jackie Robinson's first year in professional ball was 1946 when he played for the Montreal Royals, the Brooklyn Dodgers Triple-A minor league team. He played one year for Montreal and then played for the Dodgers between 1947-1956. He retired after the 1956 season.
Douglas WilliamsObviously a joke answer. Doug Williams was a quarterback in the NFL for Tampa Bay and Washington, and was the Super Bowl MVP for the Redskins.The first African-American to play Major League baseball in the modern era was, of course, Jackie Robinson of the Brooklyn Dodgers who joined the team for the start of the 1947 season and spent his entire career, ten years, with the Dodgers.Jackie was the first African American to play in the major leagues in the modern era. Kaitie G. , LouisianaJackie Robinson, who broke baseball's color line with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. The first African-American credited with playing professional baseball was Moses Fleetwood Walker.
Jackie Robinson never played for the Montreal Expos , but he did play for the Minor League Montreal Royals in 1948. Actually, Robinson played for the Montreal Royals, a Brooklyn Dodgers AAA farm club in the International League, in 1946. He joined the Dodgers to start the 1947 and remained with the team for his entire 10 year career. In 1948 he spent the entire season with the Dodgers playing in 118 games at second base, 30 games as a first baseman and 6 games at third base. He hit .296 with 12 home runs, led the team with 85 RBIs and stole 22 bases.