[EveningStar]

Pumpsie Green's claim to fame (from Wikipedia):

Green had the distinction of being the first black player to play for the Red Sox, the last pre-expansion major-league club to integrate.

[Gay State Conservative]

Green had the distinction of being the first black player to play for the Red Sox, the last pre-expansion major-league club to integrate.

I first became interested in baseball (and thus the Sox) in '61.I was too young to know anything about the race stuff...all I knew was that the Sox weren't destined to play in October.