Pumpsie Green
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Elijah Jerry "Pumpsie" Green was an American Major League Baseball infielder who played with the Boston Red Sox and New York Mets. A switch-hitter who threw right-handed, he was listed as 6 ft tall an
Green c. 1961
Green in 2012
Baseball color line
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The color line, also known as the color barrier, in American baseball excluded African American players from Major League Baseball and its affiliated Minor Leagues until 1947. Racial segregation in pr
Pumpsie Green
…tall and 175 lb (79 kg). Green had the distinction of being the first black player to play for the Red Sox, the last pre-expansion major-league club to integrate. In his Boston tenure, he was used mostly as a pinch runner or day-off replacement for infielders Pete Runnels and Don Buddin. Green made his debut on…
Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color barrier on April 15, 1947.
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Moses Fleetwood Walker of the Toledo Blue Stockings, c. 1884
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