1947 Major League Baseball season

The 1947 season is most notable as the year that the baseball color line broke, thanks to the Brooklyn Dodgers starting Jackie Robinson on Opening Day.

[1] His appearance in a major league game broke the baseball color line, the practice of excluding players of black African descent.

Doby was a more low-key figure, suffered many of the same indignities that Robinson did, albeit with less press coverage.

Brown was the first black player to hit a home run in the American League.

Opening Day took place on April 15, featuring all sixteen teams, continuing the trend from 1945.