Although recognized as the first black player in modern day Major League Baseball, Jackie Robinson of the Brooklyn Dodgers was not the first overall black player to play in the league. The very first black player was William Edward White. White, a former slave, passed as a white man. The first openly black was Moses Fleetwood Walker. Both men failed to break the colour barrier.
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