That was third baseman Bill Melton who led the AL in 1971 with 33 HRs.
If you do not count the Negro League, the first non-white major league player was the great Jackie Robinson.
The White Sox, then called the White Stockings, began play in the American League in 1900 when the American League was still a minor league and the National League was the only major league. When the American League became a major league the next season (1901) the White Stockings were a charter member and won the first pennant of the American League as a major league.
Answer:Bud Fowler - 1878
larry doby
thomas hopper is the first sorry player in the American league base ...
Who was the second black player to play in the modern major leagues and the first to do so in the American League?
Jackie Robinson
Earl Lloyd.
Sammy Sosa. He was the first non-american and first non-white player to hit 60 home runs in a season when he did it in 1998.
Frank Robinson
Jackie Robinson
JACKIE ROBINSONSigned by the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947 Jackie Robinson became the first African-American baseball player to play in both the National League, and Major League baseball. Larry Doby was he first African-American player to play in the American League, signed by the Cleveland Indians eleven weeks after Jackie Robinson was signed. you are right