In 1947, Dan Bankhead became the first African American pitcher in Major League Baseball under the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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Click on the 'African American Firsts in MLB' to find out who each team's first African American player was and other facts.
Moses Fleetwood Walker
Moses Fleetwood Walker, a college graduate who attended law school at Ann Arbor, played for Toledo of the American Association -- then a major league -- in 1884. He was later joined by his brother. At the time there were also several African-American players in the minor leagues.
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