Which Major League Baseball team was the last one to put a black man on their team? Who was that player?
2007-12-28 10:10:49 · 8 answers · asked by rockerduff 2 in Sports ➔ Baseball
Boston Red Sox - Pumpsie Green.
He made his first appearance in July of 1959, 12 years after Jackie Robinson and five years after every other AL team had their first black player.
2007-12-28 10:13:26 · answer #1 · answered by Craig S 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Boston Red Sox in 1959.
I live in L.A., which is saturated with a mixture of hispanics, blacks, whites, asians, middle eastern, etc. Last time I watched a Red Sox game on TV, I couldn't pick out ONE non-white fan in the stands. Not saying there wasn't one, but every single solitary fan I could see was white.
Even 20 years ago, when the NBA had long been dominated by blacks, the Boston Celtics roster had several white players: Larry Byrd, Kevin McCale, plus several other whites - way more than any other team.
Strange.
So no surprise it's Boston - a full 12 years after Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier. Not exactly jumping on the integrated band-wagon.
2007-12-28 10:23:00 · answer #2 · answered by ironwood9 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
i hit upon it ironic for countless motives that the Boston pink Sox have been the final group in MLB history to have an African American on that's roster pondering Boston grow to be the Birthplace of the yank Revolution and the place Crispus Attox an African American colonist grow to be the 1st to die for American Independence interior the Boston bloodbath of 1770. All those abolitionists in Boston in the time of the Civil conflict and yet Boston grow to be final it does not make experience
2016-11-25 23:26:43 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Boston Red Sox. (Figures)
2007-12-29 05:04:04 · answer #4 · answered by dgual77 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Red Sox.
2007-12-28 10:53:05 · answer #5 · answered by bubbaxriley 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In response to ironwood, I am a season ticket holder for the Red Sox and very rarely see many blacks if any at Fenway. Once there was a black guy who sat next to me and said, "Where are all the blacks?" He saw a black guy selling hot dogs and said, "Oh, they're working." Just giving you some perspective.
2007-12-28 11:08:39 · answer #6 · answered by Eric 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
red sox pumsie green... but according to shaunnassey's book they had cracks at willie mays jackie robinson and roy campanella but yawkey passed on all three.
2007-12-28 12:32:45 · answer #7 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Suprise, suprise......it was the Red Sox.
2007-12-28 16:51:15 · answer #8 · answered by The Official Texting Pro 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋