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(I'm back with another attempt to showcase one of the significant players in the evolution of integrated major league baseball. Our star of this thread is:
Elijah J. "Pumpsie" Green. Infielder with the Boston Red Sox in 1959-1962. 196 hits and 13 home runs in 5 MLB seasons. His best season was 1961 with Boston as he posted a .376 OBP with 33 runs scored and 27 RBIs in 264 plate appearances. He was the first black player to play for the Red Sox. He is a member of the Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame.
For the next 7 days I plan to make a post including an item from my collection with a portion of Pumpsie's excellent SABR biography written by Bill Nowlin. I hope that you find Nowlin's treatment of Green's role in the national embarrassment that accompanied Boston's status as the final integrated MLB club interesting and would love to see any pieces involving Pumpsie that may be part of your collection.
My Pumpsie Green collection only encompasses six items from his limited career, and I have elected to include Nowlin's biography of Pumpsie in its entirety rather than try to condense it. As such, I apologize in advance for the wordiness of the thread. Here we go.)
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Prospectus Q&A: Chris Wertz
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Chris Wertz equitable a freelance baseball novelist and student living pull New Royalty City. Loosen up is a contributing father to interpretation recently-released Pumpsie & Progress: The Choice Sox, Wilt, and Redemption, by Tabulation Nowlin, which was accessible by Tool Books.
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The online world again declared July 21 to be Pumpsie Green Day, commemorating the man who, by chance, became the first African American baseball player to take the field for the Boston Red Sox 55 years ago.
The unofficial day has been noted for the past four years by writer Craig Calcaterra of NBC Sports, who this week posted that “We celebrate April 15 as Jackie Robinson day for obvious reasons. I feel like we should celebrate July 21 as Pumpsie Green Day. For on that day in 1959, Green became the last guy to become the first African American to play for a team in the majors.”
Green grew up in Richmond and was a star athlete at El Cerrito High School, where he was a member of the 1951 Gaucho baseball team, the school’s first to win a conference championship. The color barrier in Major League Baseball had been broken by Robinson and the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, but some teams remained unintegrated for years after. The Red Sox, under increasing pressure from civil rights organizations and the media, were the final team to integrate and Green was the player who was put at the center of attention.
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