The people below are some of the most famous who played Negro League baseball, beginning with its first organized structure in 1920 until 1948, after Major League Baseball's color line barring African American players had been broken. The list includes a few players who played Negro League baseball very early in their career and who entered the league at a time when they were soon able to go on to play Major League Baseball. Bud Fowler, the first professional black baseball player with his team from Keokuk, Iowa, the Westerns of Keokuk The Negro leagues were a collection of professional baseball leagues made up of predominantly black teams. ... 1920 (MCMXX) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January January 7 - Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk. ... 1948 (MCMXLVIII) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... MLB logo Major League Baseball (MLB) is the highest level of play in professional baseball in the world. ... The Baseball color line was the unwritten policy which excluded African American United States before 1947. ... African Americans, also known as Afro-Americans or black Americans, are an ethnic group in the United States of America whose ancestors, usually in predominant part, were indigenous to Sub-Saharan and West Africa. ...

Henry Louis Hank Aaron (born February 5, 1934 in Mobile, Alabama, United States), is an American baseball player and member of the Baseball Hall of Fame. ... Newton Newt Allen (May 19, 1901 - June 11, 1988) was a baseball player in the Negro League. ... Ernie Banks (born January 31, 1931) is an American former Major League baseball player who played from 1953 to 1971. ... James Thomas Cool Papa Bell (May 17, 1903 - March 7, 1991) was one of the biggest stars in Negro League baseball, and is considered by many baseball observers to have been the fastest man ever to play the game. ... Bob Boyd - Topps baseball card - 1954 Series, #113 Robert Richard Boyd (October 1, 1919 2004) was an American first baseman in the Negro Leagues and Major League Baseball. ... Willard Brown (June 26, 1915, Shreveport, Louisiana, USA – August 8, 1996) was a professional baseball player. ... Bill Byrd was a professional baseball player in the Negro leagues. ... Roy Campanella (November 19, 1921 - June 26, 1993) was an American catcher in the Negro leagues and Major League Baseball. ... Nathaniel Sweetwater Clifton Nathaniel Sweetwater Clifton (October 13, 1922 – August 31, 1990) was an American multi-sport athlete best known as the first African American to sign a contract to play in the National Basketball Association Born in Little Rock, Arkansas, according to the Social Security Administration death records, he... John William Crutchfield, born May 25, 1910 in Ardmore, Missouri, United States – died March 31, 1993 in Chicago, Illinois, was an All-Star baseball player in Negro League baseball. ... Raymond Emmitt Dandridge (August 31, 1913 - February 12, 1994) was an American player in baseballs Negro leagues. ... Leon Day (October 30, 1916 - March 13, 1995) was an American right-handed pitcher in the Negro Leagues. ... Elwood Bingo DeMoss (1889-1965) was a baseball player and manager in the Negro Leagues from 1905 to 1943. ... Martin Dihigo (May 25, 1905 - May 20, 1971) was born in Matanzas Province, Cuba. ... Lawrence Eugene Larry Doby (December 13, 1923 - June 18, 2003), was an American professional baseball player. ... John Wesley Donaldson (February 20, 1892 - April 12, 1970) was an American Negro League baseball player. ... Wilmer Leon Fields (August 2, 1922 - June 4, 2004) was a professional ballplayer in Negro League Baseball. ... William Hendrick Bill Foster (June 12, 1904 _ September 16, 1978) was an American left-handed pitcher in baseballs Negro Leagues in the 1920s and 1930s, and the half_brother of Negro league pioneer Rube Foster. ... Andrew Rube Foster Andrew Rube Foster (September 17, 1878 or 1879 - December 9, 1930) (he adopted the nickname as his official middle letter later in life) was the founder of the Negro National League, the first stable professional baseball league for African-American ballplayers, which operated from 1921 to 1931. ... Josh Gibson Joshua Gibson (December 21, 1911 in Buena Vista, Georgia - January 20, 1947 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) 6-foot-1, 215-pounder was a catcher for the Homestead Grays and later the Pittsburgh Crawfords in baseballs Negro Leagues. ... J. Preston Hill (1880-1951) was an outfielder, second baseman and manager in the Negro Leagues from 1904 to 1925. ... Montford Merrill Monte Irvin (b. ... Samuel Jethroe (January 20, 1918 - June 18, 2001) was a center fielder in the Negro Leagues and Major League Baseball. ... William Julius Judy Johnson was born on October 26, 1899 in Snow Hill, Maryland, USA. Although his father wanted him to be a boxer, Johnson, who was 5 ft 11 in (1. ... Walter Buck Leonard was born on September 8, 1907 in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, USA. At the age of 14 he left school for the simple reason that no high school education was available for Blacks in his hometown. ... John Henry Pop Lloyd (born April 25, 1884 - died March 19, 1965) was a Negro League baseball player. ... James Raleigh Biz Mackey (July 27, 1897 - September 22, 1965) was an African American catcher and manager in Negro league baseball who came to be regarded as black baseballs premier catcher in the late 1920s and early 1930s. ... Willie Howard Mays, Jr. ... Minnie Miñoso [me-NYO-so] (b. ... Walter Dobie Moore (1893-April 1, 1963), born in Atlanta, Georgia, served in the United States Army and played for the 25th Infantry Wreckers from 1916 to 1920. ... Emilio Millo Navarro (born September 26, 1905 in the city of Ponce, Puerto Rico) was the first Puerto Rican to play in the Negro Leagues. ... Donald Newcombe (born June 14, 1926 in Madison, New Jersey), nicknamed Newk, is an American former Major League Baseball right-handed starting pitcher and left-handed batter who played for the Dodgers teams (Brooklyn, 1949-51, and Los Angeles, 1954-58), Cincinnati Reds (1958-60) and Cleveland Indians (1960). ... John Jordan Buck ONeil is a baseball player best associated with the Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro American League. ... Leroy Robert Satchel Paige (July 7, 1906 - June 8, 1982) was an American right-handed pitcher in the Negro Leagues and Major League Baseball who is considered to be among the greatest pitchers of all time. ... Ted Radcliffe c. ... Brooklyn Dodger infielder Jackie Robinson in 1947. ... Charles Wilber(n) Bullet Rogan, a. ... Hilton Smith (February 27, 1912 - November 18, 1983) was born in Kansas City, Missouri. ... Norman Turkey Stearnes was born in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, on May 8, 1901. ... Ben Taylor (July 1, 1888, Anderson, South Carolina - January 24, 1953, Baltimore, Maryland) was a baseball player in the Negro Leagues. ... Candy Jim Taylor, born James A. Taylor (1884 - 1948), was a legendary Negro League baseball player and manager. ... Henry Curtis Thompson (December 8, 1925 - September 30, 1969), best know as Hank Thompson, was an American player in the Negro Leagues and Major League Baseball who played primarily as a third baseman. ... Cristobal Torriente (1895 - 1948) was a Cuban baseball player who played in the Negro Leagues with the Cuban Stars, Chicago American Giants, Kansas City Monarchs and Detroit Stars over a career that lasted from 1914 to 1928, with a single game in 1932. ... Willie Wells (August 10, 1905 - January 22, 1989) was a professional baseball player who played from 1924-48 for various teams in the Negro Leagues. ... Carl Whitney (born September 7, 1913 _ died [[July, 1986) was a Negro League baseball Player. ... Joseph Williams (April 6, 1886 - February 25, 1951), also knicknamed Smokey Joe, has been considered by many baseball historians to be one of the games greatest pitchers, even though he never played a game in the major leagues. ... Ernest Judson Wilson (February 28, 1899 - June 26, 1963), nicknamed Boojum, was a professional baseball player and manager in the Negro Leagues. ...

See also

• List of first black MLB players by team and date

Ryan Worswick Below is the list of the First Black players in Major League Baseball by team and chronological order. ...

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