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According to Commissioner Bud Selig, MLB has about 12% of its players are African Americans..just about the national population average.
Click on the 'African American Firsts in MLB' to find out who each team's first African American player was and other facts.
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.
In MLB, that was Frank Robinson who was named player/manager of the Cleveland Indians in 1975.
One April 15, all players, coaches, and umpires of the MLB wear the jersey number 42 in honor of Jackie Robinson, the first African American MLB player, who played his first MLB game on April 15, 1947.
There were 30 teams in the MLB, 14 in the American League and 16 in the National League.