Jimmy Claxton (born December 14, 1892 in Wellington, British Columbia, Canada) was a black baseball pitcher. December 14 is the 348th day of the year (349th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1892 (MDCCCXCII) was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... A view of the playing field at Busch Stadium II St. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

On May 28 1916, Claxton temporarily broke the professional baseball color line when he played one game for the Oakland Oaks of the Pacific Coast League. Claxton was introduced to the team owner by a part-Indian friend as a fellow member of an Oklahoma tribe. A candy company--the Zeenut candy company--quickly produced a baseball card for Claxton. Within a week, a friend of Claxton revealed that he had both African American and Native American ancestors, and was promptly fired. It would be nearly thirty more years before another black man played organized white baseball. The baseball color line was the policy, unwritten for nearly its entire duration, which excluded African American baseball players from organized baseball in the United States before 1946. ... There have been two sports franchises based in Oakland known as the Oakland Oaks: The Oakland Oaks of minor league baseball, who played in the Pacific Coast League. ... The Pacific Coast League (PCL) is a minor league baseball league operating in the West and Midwest of the United States. ... Official language(s) None Capital Oklahoma City Largest city Oklahoma City Area  Ranked 20th  - Total 69,960 sq mi (181,196 km²)  - Width 230 miles (370 km)  - Length 298 miles (480 km)  - % water 1. ... An African American (also Afro-American, Black American, or simply black) is a member of an ethnic group in the United States whose ancestors, usually in predominant part, were indigenous to Africa. ... An Aani (Atsina) named Assiniboin Boy. ... An ancestor is a parent or (recursively) the parent of an ancestor (i. ...

Source

Baseball by Ken Burns; New York: Alfred Knopf, 1994 Baseball was an Emmy Award-winning 1994 documentary series by Ken Burns about the game of baseball. ... Kenneth Lauren Burns (born July 29 [1] [2], 1953) is an American documentary filmmaker. ...

See also

• Jackie Robinson

Jack Roosevelt Jackie Robinson (January 31, 1919 - October 24, 1972) became the first African American Major League Baseball player of the modern era in 1947. ...

External Links

http://www.blackathlete.net/artman/publish/article_01933.shtml "Black Pitcher Threw World a Curve"