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title: "I was the first African-American pitcher in the Major Leagues. Do you happen to know my name?"  
description: "I was the first African-American pitcher in the Major Leagues. Do you happen to know my name?"  
author: "Sharon Parkar"  
published: 2018-02-26  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/34851/i-was-the-first-african-american-pitcher-in-the-major-leagues-do-you-happen-to-know-my-name  
category: "sports"  
tags: ["baseball"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# I was the first African-American pitcher in the Major Leagues. Do you happen to know my name?

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