Editing Baseball color line (section)

==Professional baseball firsts==

[[File:Bud Fowler.jpg|thumb|right|upright=.75|[[Bud Fowler]]]]

''Listed chronologically''

* Player, professional: [[Bud Fowler]], 1878. Fowler never played in the major leagues.
* Player, major leagues: [[Moses Fleetwood Walker]], debut game May 1, 1884, [[catcher]] for [[Toledo Blue Stockings|Toledo]] at [[Louisville Eclipse|Louisville]] <!-- player page with debut date https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/walkefl01.shtml -->
* All-black team, openly professional: [[Cuban Giants]], 1885
* Integrated professional league in the U.S.: [[California Winter League]], 1910
* Pitcher, major leagues: [[Dan Bankhead]], debut game August 26, 1947, for [[Brooklyn Dodgers|Brooklyn]] at home<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.baseball-almanac.com/firsts/first4.shtml |title=Famous Baseball Firsts in the Postwar Era |publisher=Baseball-almanac.com |access-date=August 31, 2013}}</ref> <!-- gamelog https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/BRO/1947-schedule-scores.shtml -->
* [[World Series]] player: [[Jackie Robinson]], [[Dan Bankhead]] for [[Brooklyn Dodgers|Brooklyn]], [[1947 World Series|1947]]
* [[World Series]] pitcher: [[Satchel Paige]] for [[Cleveland Indians]], [[1948 World Series|1948]]
* [[Major League Baseball All-Star|All-Star]] selection, major leagues: [[Roy Campanella]], [[Larry Doby]], [[Don Newcombe]], [[Jackie Robinson]], [[1949 Major League Baseball All-Star Game|1949]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.baseball-almanac.com/asgbox/yr1949as.shtml|title=1949 All-Star Game|publisher=Baseball-Almanac.com|access-date=August 18, 2012}}</ref>
* [[Major League Baseball Most Valuable Player Award|MLB Most Valuable Player]]: Jackie Robinson, 1949
* [[National Baseball Hall of Fame]], Jackie Robinson, {{bhofy|1962}}
* Coach, major leagues: [[Buck O'Neil]], [[Chicago Cubs]], 1962
* [[Manager (baseball)|Field manager]], [[Triple-A (baseball)|Triple-A]] level: [[Héctor López]], 1969
* First all-black and Latino lineup, major leagues: [[Pittsburgh Pirates]], September 1, 1971, at [[Three Rivers Stadium]]<ref>{{cite news |url=https://andscape.com/features/on-this-day-in-1971-the-pittsburgh-pirates-fielded-the-first-all-black-lineup/ |title=On this day in 1971, the Pittsburgh Pirates fielded the first all-black and Latino lineup |first=Ryan |last=Cortes |website=[[Andscape]] |date=September 1, 2016 |access-date=June 2, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://m.mlb.com/news/article/24052540/ |title=Bucs broke ground with first all-minority lineup |first=Charlie |last=Vascellaro  |website=Major League Baseball |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141012062104/http://m.mlb.com/news/article/24052540/ |archive-date=October 12, 2014 |via=[[Wayback Machine]]}}</ref>{{dagger}}
* [[Manager (baseball)|Field manager]], major leagues: [[Frank Robinson]], debut game April 8, 1975, for the [[Cleveland Indians]] at home<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/78847466/jackies-widow-applauds-black-managers/ |title=Jackie's Widow Applauds Black Manager's Arrival |agency=[[Associated Press|AP]] |newspaper=[[Spokane Daily Chronicle]] |page=35 |date=April 9, 1975 |access-date=June 3, 2021 |via=newspapers.com}}</ref>{{double dagger}}
* [[General manager (baseball)|General manager]], major leagues: [[Bill Lucas (baseball)|Bill Lucas]], 1976 with the [[Atlanta Braves]]
* World Series-winning manager: [[Cito Gaston]] with the [[Toronto Blue Jays]], [[1992 Toronto Blue Jays season|1992]]. He repeated the next season.
* World Series walk-off home run: [[Joe Carter]], for the [[Toronto Blue Jays]], [[1993 World Series|1993]]
* National League pennant-winning manager: [[Dusty Baker]] with the [[2002 San Francisco Giants season|San Francisco Giants]], [[2002 World Series|2002]]
{{dagger}} ''The Sporting News'' contemporaneously reported it as "the first all-Negro starting lineup"; later sources state Black and Latino or "all-minority".

{{double dagger}} A case has been made for [[Ernie Banks]] as the de facto first black manager in the major leagues. On May 8, 1973, [[Chicago Cubs]] manager [[Whitey Lockman]] was ejected from a 12-inning game against the [[San Diego Padres]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1973/B05080SDN1973.htm |title=Chicago Cubs 3, San Diego Padres 2 |date=May 8, 1973 |website=[[Retrosheet]] |access-date=May 11, 2021}}</ref> Coach Banks filled in as manager for the final two innings of the 3–2 Cubs win.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/77535749/ernie-banks-wins-major-league-manager-de/ |title=Ernie Banks Wins Major League Manager Debut |agency=[[United Press International|UPI]] |newspaper=[[The Desert Sun]] |location=[[Palm Springs, California]] |page=20 |date=May 9, 1973 |access-date=May 11, 2021 |via=newspapers.com}}</ref> Prior to the next season, the ''Official Baseball Guide'' published by ''[[The Sporting News]]'' stated, "he [Banks] became the major leagues' first black manager—but only for a day".<ref name=OBG74>{{cite book |title=Official Baseball Guide |date=1974 |page=129 |publisher=[[The Sporting News]] |location=St. Louis |editor=Joe Marcin |editor2=Chris Roewe |editor3=Larry Wigge |editor4=Larry Vickrey}}</ref> The other two regular coaches on the team ([[Pete Reiser]] and [[Larry Jansen]]) were absent that day,<ref name=OBG74/> opening this door for Banks for the one occasion, but Banks never became a manager on a permanent basis.