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The 'Baseball color line' quiz
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The 'Baseball color line' quiz

Can you name the first African American to play for each MLB franchise? Teams that relocated to a new city after already breaking the color line are not listed a second time. Expansion teams that joined MLB after 1961 had been integrated from their first game and are not listed. Quiz clue: Team / Date of first game. Good luck!

SCORE:
0/18
TIME:
5:00
BKD/4-15-47
Jackie Robinson
CLE/7-5-47
Larry Doby
STB/7-17-47
Hank Thompson
NYG/7-8-49
Monte Irvin
NYG/7-8-49
Hank Thompson
BOB/4-18-50
Sam Jethroe
CHW/5-1-51
Minnie Minoso
PHA/9-13-53
Bob Trice
CHC/9-17-53
Ernie Banks
PIT/4-13-54
Curt Roberts
STL/4-13-54
Tom Alston
CIN/4-17-54
Nino Escalera
CIN/4-17-54
Chuck Harmon
WSS/9-6-54
Carlos Paula
NYY/4-14-55
Elston Howard
PHI/4-22-57
John Kennedy
DET/6-6-58
Ozzie Virgil, Sr.
BOS/7-21-59
Pumpsie Green

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