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the first african-american to play in the MLB was Jackie Robinson.
Robinson is recognized as the player who broke the so-called color line in Baseball, however, there is historical documentation that there were "Black" players playing in the American Association (a recognized "Major" league in 1871. In 1884, two brothers, Fleet and Welday Walker, African-Americans, were playing for Toledo in the American Association, a recognized Major League. Robinson became the first "Black" player to play in the Major Leagues in the modern era, when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers to start the 1947 season after spending the 1946 season with the Dodgers' AAA farm team in Montreal in the International League.
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