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Feb 08, 1924 Plainfield, New Jersey, United States Died on 17 May 2002 (aged 78)
American baseball player
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About Joe Black
- Joseph Black (February 8, 1924 – May 17, 2002) was an American right-handed pitcher in Negro League and Major League Baseball for the Brooklyn Dodgers, Cincinnati Redlegs, and Washington Senators who became the first black pitcher to win a World Series game, in 1952.
- A native of Plainfield, New Jersey, he starred at Plainfield High School.
- Black attended Morgan State University on a baseball scholarship and graduated in 1950.
- He later received an honorary doctorate from Shaw University.
- He was a member of Omega Psi Phi fraternity.
- He appears prominently in Roger Kahn's classic book, The Boys of Summer.
