Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site abnji.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!mhuxv!abnji!nyssa From: nyssa@abnji.UUCP (nyssa of traken) Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball,net.games.trivia Subject: Re: First Black Baseball Player Message-ID: <931@abnji.UUCP> Date: Tue, 5-Nov-85 07:39:06 EST Article-I.D.: abnji.931 Posted: Tue Nov 5 07:39:06 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 7-Nov-85 03:58:07 EST References: <544@petfe.UUCP> Organization: Terminus Hospital, Incorporated Lines: 15 Xref: watmath net.sport.baseball:2243 net.games.trivia:2205 >Who was the first black ballplayer? My history books and my instinct >tells me the obvious answer: Jackie Robinson. >Why then does Trivial Pursuit say that it was some other guy? Has >everybody else seen that question? The answer is some other guy >whose name escapes me, but whom I had never heard of. If it is Larry Doby, it refers to the first black in the American League. Otherwise, it may refer to the first black to play pro baseball in the minors (I forget who that was, but I don't think he ever made it to the major leagues). -- James C. Armstrong, Jnr. {ihnp4,cbosgd,akgua}!abnji!nyssa "All these corridors look the same to me!" Who said it, what story?