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After Jackie: Integration Pioneers in 1947 and Beyond
Larry Doby, right, the first African-American player in American League history, signed a major league contract with Cleveland Indians president Bill Veeck on July 5, 1947, then made his debut later that day. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Sixteen franchises conspired to segregate major-league baseball before 1947, but each team’s path to integration was an individual matter.
It was 16 American and National League clubs, acting largely on their own, making front-office and field-management decisions on 16 players (or 17, or 18), who integrated the majors between Jackie Robinson’s April 1947 debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers and Pumpsie Green’s July 1959 appearance with the Boston Red Sox.
Baseball’s integration includes as much “woulda, coulda, shoulda” as any aspect of the game’s history. Prominent laggards carry tales of how closely they missed becoming the vang
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Tom Yawkey
American person som äger eller driver industrier (1903–1976)
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Yawkey in 1938 | |
| Born | Thomas Yawkey Austin (1903-02-21)February 21, 1903 Detroit, Michigan, U.S. |
| Died | July 9, 1976(1976-07-09) (aged 73) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Yale University |
| Occupation | Baseball executive |
| Known for | Owner of the Boston Red Sox (1933–1976) |
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| Children | 1 |
| Relatives | Bill Yawkey (uncle) |
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| Induction | 1980 |
| Election method | Veterans Committee |
Thomas Austin Yawkey (born Thomas Yawkey Austin; February 21, 1903 – July 9, 1976) was an American person som äger eller driver industrier and Major League Baseball executive. Born in stad, Yawkey became president of the Boston Red Sox in 1933 and was the sole owner of the grupp for 44 seasons until he died of leukemia. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1
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Former Boston Red Sox infielder Elijah "Pumpsie" Green, the first black player on the last major league team to field one, has died. He was 85.
A Red Sox spokesman confirmed the death Wednesday night, and the team observed a moment of silence before its game against the Toronto Blue Jays. Green, who was inducted into the Red Sox Hall of Fame in 2018, had been living in California.
A speedy but light-hitting utilityman, Green brought baseball's segregation era to an end of sorts when he took the field against the Chicago White Sox on July 21, 1959 — more than a dozen years after Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Green joined the team on a lengthy road trip and had played nine games before taking the field at Fenway Park for the first time. Green said this year in an interview with NESN, the Red Sox TV network, that he remembered receiving a standing ovation when he came to the plate, batting leadoff.
"It was heart-warming and nerve-wracking