Who was the 1st native american to play baseball?
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After Nap Lajoie was sold to Philadelphia. The fans voted to rename club the Indians, after Cleveland's popular 19th century player, Louis Sockalexis, a Penobscot Indian, the first Native American to play Major League baseball.
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Nobody by that last name pitched in MLB or the Negro leagues during that time.  Below is a list of all pitchers that may fit your criteria.\n\n"Prince" Hal Newhouser -pitched from 1939-1955, mostly for the Tigers\n"Prince" Hal Schumacher - 1931-1946 for the NY Giants.\nPrince Oana - pitched 1943, 1945 for the Detroit Tigers.\nDon Prince - pitched 1962 for the Cubs.
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The Missouri Indians.
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Bob Feller is considered the first pitcher to throw the baseball over 100 mpm. He played for the Cleveland Indians in the 40s and 50s. Today, his plaque hangs on the wall of the hall of fame.
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Fernando Tatis\n\nOn April 23, 1999, Fernando Tatis, batting for the St. Louis Cardinals in his 226th big league game, became the first player in Major League baseball history to hit two grand slam home runs in the same inning.
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It was Chuck Knoblock\n\nMy link shows all the teams that he played on. he played for the yanks from 98-01 thats 3 world series
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Native Americans were here first. They are the original americans. Indians are not from India. They were only called "Indians" because the first settlers didn't have GPS systems or anything and thought they were in India instead of what we now call the U.S.\n\nThe native americans are Asians and originally came here by crossing the Berring Straight from Russia.
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(1) I feel that Native Americans or American Indians are people who are indigenous to the Americas. \n\n(2) I read that the name Indian was first applied to them by Christopher Columbus, who believed mistakenly that the mainland and islands of America were part of the Indies, in Asia.
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Native Americans were never banned from the Major and Minor Leagues like blacks were, so there were some (such as Louis Sockalexis and Jim Thorpe) in the major leagues.  Indeed, it is believed that a few black or partly black players appeared in games by claming to be Indian to account for their skin tone.
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England.  I borrowed this from another answer: 'The earliest known mention of the sport is in a 1744 British publication, A Little Pretty Pocket-Book, by John Newbery. It contains a wood-cut illustration of boys playing "base-ball," showing a set-up roughly similar to the modern game, and a rhymed description of the sport.'\n\nIn the United States, the rules were first codified in 1845.  It is based on two English games, rounders and cricket.  There are references to baseball in the USA going back to 1791.  Baseball as we know it was also once called the "New York" game, there being a variant more like cricket that was called the "Massachusetts" game.  Nonetheless, these developments were American in origin.\n\nChina isn't even in the running.  There wasn't even that much direct trade with China when baseball was developed, though it was growing.  India was the big market.  Whatever the Chinese were playing, it was their own game, not baseball, which was introduced later.
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Chris Hoiles vs. Indians\nI saw that game
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First stadium to have its entire field covered by AstroTurf, except for the cutouts around the bases and pitcher’s mound. \nFirst Hit: Felix Millan, June 30, 1970. \nFirst Home run: Hank Aaron, June 30, 1970. \nFirst Presidential Visit: Richard Nixon, July 14, 1970. \nFirst Upper deck Home run: Tony Perez, August 11, 1970. \nFirst World Series game ever played on artificial turf: October 10, 1970. \nFirst No-hitter: Ken Holtzman, June 3, 1971. \nFirst Pitcher ever to pitch a No-hitter and hit two Home runs in the same game: Rick Wise, June 23, 1971. \nHank Aaron ties the all-time Home run record with number 714: April 4, 1974. \nFirst stadium to display Metric distances on the outfield walls (100.58 meters down the lines, 114.30 to the alleys, 123.13 to center): 1976. \nHighest season attendance, 2,629,708: 1976. \nFirst Rain checks issued: August 30, 1978. \nFirst player to Hit for the Cycle: Mike Easler, June 12, 1980. \nPete Rose breaks the all-time Hit record with number 4,192: September 11, 1985. \nFirst player ever to be Caught stealing four times in one game: Robby Thompson, June 27, 1986. \nFirst Perfect game: Tom Browning, September 16, 1988. \nLongest Home run, 473': Mark McGwire, May 5, 2000.\n\nRiverfront/ Cinergy was pretty damn historic
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The origins of baseball go back to the late 18th century--and not to Abner Doubleday in Cooperstown, New York.  It is related to the still-popular British cricket and the lesser-known Irish game rounders.\n\nThe first recorded beginnings of baseball are found in the "Knickerbocker Rules" written in 1845 by Alexander Cartwright for his Manhattan team, which essentially established the rules baseball is still played by today.  The rules suggest the game had been played in some form prior to that, but it is uncertain actually when.\n\nWhile I can find no reference to Maine and the origins of the game, it is likely that some version of cricket and/or rounders may have been played there which evolved into more of what baseball is.  Historians, however, seem to be in agreement that baseball evolved from amateur urban teams (similar to the Knickerbockers) into the beginnings of professional baseball by 1870.\n\nHere's more on the origins of baseball from Wikipedia:
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Bret Saberhagen\n http://www.baseball-reference.com/postseason/1985_WS.shtml
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As much as anyone can be credited with inventing baseball, Alexander Cartwright is that person.  His 1845 Knickerbocker rules are the earliest ones that can be directly recognizable as baseball.\n\nThe National League is generally recognized as the first true major league; it began play in 1876.  It was a reformation of the National Association, which had begun play in 1871 but was not as cohesive of an organization.  The term "Major League" can be traced to the 1883 "National Agreement" that established the NL and the American Association as "Major Leagues" and all other leagues as "minor leagues."  Besides the National League, other leagues that are recognized as having been Major Leagues are:\n\nAmerican Association: 1882-1891 (several teams joined the NL after the AA's demise)\nUnion Association: 1884\nPlayers League: 1890\nAmerican League: 1901-Present\nFederal League: 1914-1915
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1975, Frank Robinson manages his first game with the Indians and becomes the first black major league manager.
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Here are a couple. I'm sure there are more.\n\nFr. Paul Ojibway: http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1141/is_n12_v31/ai_16518775\n\nBishop Donald Pelotte of the Diocese of Gallup, the first Native American bishop: http://www.dioceseofgallup.org/bishop/\n\nWith love in Christ.