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Posted By: Kevin Cummings

Brad:

We forgot one other significant African American professional baseball player - Frank Grant. He was perhaps the greatest black player of the 19th century. His strong hitting (.344) and acrobatic fielding helped the Buffalo International League (then Eastern League) team to a plus-.500 season and a fifth-place finish in 1886. He became the first African American to play on the same team in organized baseball for three consecutive seasons (1886 - 1888).

The picture is from Sol White's Official Baseball Guide.

Kevin