My new project is to create cards of each MLB team's first black player. Some are well known superstars others are not as well known. I will be posting these in alphabetical order by team, starting with the Athletics, ending with Yankees. There are just 16 teams as by the 1961 expansion all teams had integrated to a degree. The cards themselves will be from the year of their first MLB appearance. This will require me to take a little artistic license. I will re-imagining certain cards that are pre-Topps/Bowman/Leaf.
Bob Trice was a September call up in 1953. By that time he had already won 21 games for the Ottawa A's. He won 2 of his 3 starts for the major league A's in 1953. A former member of the Homestead Grays, he would only play 3 MLB seasons all for the Athletics, two in Philly and one in Kansas City.
Great idea for a series! All of those athletes no doubt faced considerable obstacles. And it will really show which teams were slow to accept Black players even after Jackie Robinson and Larry Doby.
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