do what you gotta' do: 1- In what year did the last major league team integrate a black player? 2- Another color line question. Name the Pitcher and Batter, in the first instance of a black pitcher facing a black hitter in the major leagues. 3- Who was the first black pitcher to play in a World Series? 4- Get ‘em on and then get ‘em out. What is the highest number of base runners allowed in a nine-inning no-hitter? 5- Who is the only World Series MVP to play for the losing team? ( a bit of a quirky Q).
I'm going to guess that #3 is Don Newcombe. And #4 whatever it is has to belong to Nolan Ryan because of his all to often lack of control.
Newcombe pitched for the Dodgers & they were in the 49 world series & the color line was broke in 47. I thought for sure it was Newcombe. So it had to have happened in either 48 or 49 & I'm stumped.
^^^Rick, I'm thinking it's either a trick question and it happened way back in the 1800's...or Satchel Paige was involved.
^^^I was thinking Page initially but I don't remember him pitching in the majors until he was in his 50s which would have been sometime during the 60s.
1- In what year did the last major league team integrate a black player? Red Sox, Pumpsie Green- 1959 2- Another color line question. Name the Pitcher and Batter, in the first instance of a black pitcher facing a black hitter in the major leagues. Only July 8, 1949, the Giants Hank Thomson faced the Dodgers Don Newcombe – and grounded out to first. 3- Who was the first black pitcher to play in a World Series? Satchel Paige, who – at age 42 – came in with one out in the 7th in game five (October 10, 1948) and retired the only two men he faced – as his Cleveland Indians lost to the Boston Braves 11-5. http://www.baseball-almanac.com/ws/yr1948ws.shtml 4- Get ‘em on and then get ‘em out. What is the highest number of base runners allowed in a nine-inning no-hitter? The Orioles’ Steve Barber (8 2/3 innings and Stu Miller 1/3 inning no-hit the Tigers in 2-1 Baltimore loss on April 30, 1967. The Oriole hurlers gave 10 walks, hit two batters and two were safe on errors. 5- Who is the only World Series MVP to play for the losing team? ( a bit of a quirky Q). Bobby Richardson, second base, 1960 Yankees. Despite outscoring the Pirates 55-27, the Yankees lost the series 4 games to 3 on Bill Mazeroski’s game-seven walk-off home run in the bottom of the ninth. Richardson, who had 11 hits, 8 runs scored and 12 runs batted in over the seven games was selected the Sporting News World Series MVP. (Mazeroski was honored as the Babe Ruth Award Series MVP.) Richardson, a lifetime .266 hitter who only topped .300 in a regular season once, was a World Series hitting machine. He average .305 in 36 WS games and
Bankhead was the first black pitcher in baseball & did appear in a couple of games for the Dodgers DURING the 47 season but I don't think he ever pitched in the post season
Oddly enough Bankhead was in the 47 Series, but not as a Pitcher. He never picked up the ball one time, as a Pitcher, or Fielder. Bankhead Pinch Ran for Pinch Hitter R. Bragan in the 6th inning. Bragan hit a double, Bankhead PR for him, advanced to 3rd on a Single to RF by E. Stanky, then scored the tying run, with a single to RF by Reeese... that was the only bit of playing time Bankhead saw in the 47 Series, only in game 6 of 7...that one time on the basepaths. Now that would be an odd Trivia Q. What Black Pitcher played in the world series, but did not pitch, and scored the tying run in game 6. It wasn't Satchel Paige or Don Newcombe...and Bankhead did play in a W.S. prior to Satchel, just didn't pitch....
