Who was the second black player to play in the modern major leagues and the first to do so in the American League?
Johnmackin
Yes. To win a league batting title, a player must have a minimum of 502 plate appearances. If a player has 502 or more plate appearances when he is traded to the other league and winds up in 1st place in batting average for the league he was traded from, he is awarded the league title. To win an MLB (both leagues) batting title, a player must have a minimum of 502 plate appearances combined in both leagues.
The 2011 season is his 18th as a major league player.
Robbie Earnshaw
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.
The Major League Baseball All Star game pits "star" players from the National League against "star" players from the American League. Each team in both leagues must have at least one player on the all-star rosters of each league.
Jackie Robinson was a Major League Baseball player who played 2nd base for the Brooklyn Dodgers. He is famous because in April of 1947, he broke baseball's color barrier by becoming the first ever African American to play in a Major League Baseball game for a Major League Baseball team.
Arjen Robben has won league titles in 4 different leagues (Netherlands, England, Spain, Germany) I think there was one other player that has done that but i'm not sure. I know nobody has ever won more than that.
In 1904 (because the National League champion refused to play the American League champion) and in 1994 (because of a player strike).
the first african-american to play in the MLB was Jackie Robinson. Robinson is recognized as the player who broke the so-called color line in baseball, however, there is historical documentation that there were "Black" players playing in the American Association (a recognized "Major" league in 1871. In 1884, two brothers, Fleet and Welday Walker, African-Americans, were playing for Toledo in the American Association, a recognized Major League. Robinson became the first "Black" player to play in the Major Leagues in the modern era, when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers to start the 1947 season after spending the 1946 season with the Dodgers' AAA farm team in Montreal in the International League.
Jackie Robinson
Steve Bilko was an American baseball player, born in November of 1928. He was known for his home run hitting as a minor league player in the 1950s. He broke into the major leagues when he was 20, joining the St. Louis Cardinals in 1949.