The First Non-White NBA Player Ever
This is the story of Wat Misaka breaking the color barrier in basketball, the same year Jackie Robinson did so in baseball.
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5 min readOct 30, 2022
The story of Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier in Major League Baseball in 1947 has become an important piece of sports history, well known by many people who even don’t know anything else about baseball. It has become an important chapter in the story of America.