This List of Negro league baseball players who played in Major League Baseball is largely based on the research compiled by the Center for Negro League Baseball Research. The list includes those who played on major Negro league teams prior to integration (and any caliber Negro league team after integration) as well as in Major League Baseball. The list does not include Negro league players who only played in the minor leagues and White Hispanic players who played in both the Negro Leagues and MLB prior to full integration (ex. Pedro Dibut).
Pre-integration players
Major League Baseball was segregated from 1887 through 1946. The integration of Major League Baseball happened at the beginning of the 1947 MLB season when Jackie Robinson played his first game for the Brooklyn Dodgers. By the 1950s, enough black talent had integrated into the formerly "white" leagues (both major and minor) that the Negro leagues themselves had become a minor league circuit.
Below is a list of 52 players who played for major Negro league teams up to 1950 and eventually saw playing time for a Major League team. Of these, nine have been inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame and two of them (Greason and Mays) are still alive.
† | Elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame |
- Notes
- ↑ Chuck Harmon played under alias of Charlie Fine for the Clowns so as not to violate his college basketball eligibility.
- ↑ Charlie Peete and his family died in a plane crash in 1957 when he was 27.
Post-integration players
An additional 35 or so players played on a Negro league team after 1950. A select few were All-Stars and one (Aaron) was inducted into the Hall of Fame.
See also
References
- List of players: "Negro League Players Who Made the Major Leagues" (PDF). Center for Negro League Baseball Research. Retrieved 28 December 2020.
- Military service: Bedingfield, Gary. "Negro Leaguers Who Served With The Armed Forces in WWII". Baseball in Wartime. Retrieved 28 December 2020.