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The soviet union.
No. That was Romania.
Oil was called black gold in the early 1900'2
No one with that exact spelling has ever played Major League baseball.
Since the Major Leagues did not have any Black players in the 1900s, coaches did not have any Black players to react toward.
That was back when they were called the millionaires, in the middle 1900s.
Maybe you are looking for "Shoeless" Joe Jackson? He played Major League Baseball in the early 1900s until he was banned from baseball for participating in the famous "Black Sox Scandal" where some Chicago White Sox players tried to fix the 1919 World Series.
Ottoman Empire
Hall of famer Grover Cleveland Alexander, a pitcher, played Major League baseball from 1911 - 1930
"Negro" or another form of the word which is known to be more insulting.
Okapi ?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okapi
a region in northwest france called brittany invented the first crepes in the 1900s