Bieber pitches for the Blue Jays now. Swap him out for a question about Larry Doby, the first player to break the color barrier in the AL. Doby debuted with the Indians in July 1947, only three months after Jackie Robinson debuted with the Dodgers. He endured all the same racism and hatred that Robinson did (and the two talked often to support each other), and Doby was a seven-time all-star and is in the Hall of Fame, but he has been largely lost to history because he was the second man to cross the color barrier, rather than first. Further kudos to the Indians for embracing the fall of the color barrier before anyone but the Dodgers did. By the next season (1948), they had added Satchel Paige, probably the best Negro League pitcher ever, and they won the World Series. (They also invited Minnie Minoso, who later became the first Black White Sox player, to training camp, but Minoso did not make the team.)