Why the wait? The last MLB team to integrate was the Red Sox, 12 years after Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers 7/21/59 "Pumpsie" Green was the 1st black player to play for Boston when he entered the game as a pinch runner #BaseballandtheLaw 634
youtu.be/dQJJUKq9VJE The first Black MLB player wasn’t Jackie Robinson—or even Moses Fleetwood Walker. On June 21, 1879, William Edward White played one game for the Providence Grays, making him, according to the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR), the true first Black MLB player.
