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- Jan 3, 2022
- 2 min
Happy New Year!!
Wishing everyone a happy and healthy 2022. It was 75 years ago this year that Jackie Robinson stepped onto the field in Brooklyn breaking MLB's color barrier. Just a little over 2 months later Larry Doby became the first African American player in the American League when Bill Veeck signed Doby to the Cleveland Indians. The Dodgers and the Indians were pioneering teams when it came to integration. By 1950 both teams had signed 4 Black players while there were only a dozen men