Emmett Ashford from 1966-1970.
Moses Fleetwood Walker, a college graduate who attended law school at Ann Arbor, played for Toledo of the American Association -- then a major league -- in 1884. He was later joined by his brother. At the time there were also several African-American players in the minor leagues.
Answer:Bud Fowler - 1878
Dan Bankhead was the first African-American pitcher to play in a major league game.
1947. Jackie Robinson was the first African American to play major league baseball
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This question has been asked and answered several times. The first African-American major league baseball player(s) by all accounts seems to be the brothers Fleet and Welday Walker, who played for Toledo in the American Association, then consided a "major" league, in 1884.
The NL and the AL used to maintain separate groups of umpires, but Major League Baseball combined them some years ago, and now, all umpire crews work both NL and AL games.
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