# Was Jackie Robinson the first black Major League Baseball player?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-jackie-robinson-the-first-black-major-league-baseball-player/602342>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [November 9, 2011, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-jackie-robinson-the-first-black-major-league-baseball-player/602342 "2011-11-09T01:26:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
**Page:** 2

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2011, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-jackie-robinson-the-first-black-major-league-baseball-player/602342/21 "2011-11-12T06:43:05Z")

</div>

> [@Sternvogel](#):
>
> there’s speculation that no less a legend than [Babe Ruth](http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0501/page051501.asp) may have had some black ancestry.

[Ancestry.com page for Babe’s Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Grandmother](http://records.ancestry.com/Amy_Selby_records.ashx?pid=13950922), give or take a Great.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2011, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-jackie-robinson-the-first-black-major-league-baseball-player/602342/22 "2011-11-12T14:05:05Z")

</div>

> [@Lord\_Mondegreen](#):
>
> So White was a Gray who was black.

From [Brown!](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_University)

[Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-jackie-robinson-the-first-black-major-league-baseball-player/602342.md?page=1)