Jackie Robinson was the first African American to play in a MLB game.
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Catcher Elston Howard was the first African-American to play for the New York Yankees. The year was 1955. Elston was also the first African-American to win the American League Most Valuable Player award.
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The first player of Filipino ancestry to play in MLB was Bobby Balcena whose career spanned 7 games for the Cincinnati Reds in 1956. He was born in San Pedro, California. The first Filipino born player to play in MLB was Bobby Chouinard of the Oakland Athletics who played his first MLB game on May 26, 1996. Chouinard was born in Manila.
If you mean the first black player to play for the Sabres , it was Tony McKegney. The first black player born in the USA was Val James who was from Florida.
It may be Rod Langway. Dug deep and it's Harry Mummery born in Chicago.
Who was the second black player to play in the modern major leagues and the first to do so in the American League?
he was the first African American player to play for the steelers
Larry Doby of the Cleveland Indians was the first African American to play in the American League in 1947.
The first African American in the North American Soccer League was Otey Cannon. The first American born black player to play for the US National Team was Eddie Hawkins, however Joe Gaetjens, Haitian born, played for the US in the 1950 World Cup scoring the historic goal to defeat England 1-0.
Jackie Robinson was the first African American to play in a MLB game.
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Jackie Robinson was an American baseball player who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball. He was born on January 31, 1919 and died on October 24, 1972.
He was the first black american pitcher to make it in the majors, not the first black american player. I see no listing of him being married.