Former Red Sox infielder Elijah 'Pumpsie' Green, the first black player on the last major league team to integrate, has died at the age of 85.
Former Boston Red Sox infielder Elijah"Pumpsie" Green, the first black player on the last major league team to field one, has died. He was 85.
A light-hitting second baseman and shortstop, Green brought baseball's segregation era to an end of sorts when he entered a game against the Chicago White Sox as a pinch-runner for Vic Wertz on July 21, 1959 — more than a dozen years after Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Born in Boley, Oklahoma, he moved with his family to California at a young age and met his wife Marie Presley at Contra Costa Junior College. He made his professional baseball debut at 19 years old for the Oakland Oaks of the Pacific Coast League and was the California League's Most Valuable Player in 1955.
Green played parts of four seasons with the Red Sox before finishing his career with one year on the New York Mets. In all, he batted .246 with 13 homers and 74 RBIs. A few days after Green was called up, the Red Sox added Earl Wilson, a black pitcher. Green said there was an informal quota system that required teams to have an even number of black players so they would have someone to room with on the road."Most of the time it was just me," he said."It was almost an oddity when you saw a black person walking around the stands.""But you can get those at any ballpark at any time," he said."I learned to tune things out.
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