In 1947, Dan Bankhead became the first African American pitcher in Major League Baseball under the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Dan Bankhead of the Brooklyn Dodgers on August 26, 1947.
In 1884 in the American Association, a major league at the time, Moses Walker and his brother Welday Walker played for the Toledo Blue Stockings.
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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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Answer:Bud Fowler - 1878
Dan Bankhead was the first African-American pitcher to play in a major league game.
1947. Jackie Robinson was the first African American to play major league baseball
first to play
Jackie Robinson
This question has been asked and answered several times. The first African-American major league baseball player(s) by all accounts seems to be the brothers Fleet and Welday Walker, who played for Toledo in the American Association, then consided a "major" league, in 1884.
Emmett Ashford from 1966-1970.
Jackie Robinson
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Moses Fleetwood Walker
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.
Jackie Robinson