Which Major League Baseball Team Was The Last to Integrate?

As we know, on April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier and became the first black Major League Baseball player in modern times. He played for the Brooklyn Dodgers. After that, the other teams gradually acquired black players.





Which was the last Major League baseball team to integrate?





Hint: It did not happen until 1959.|||The Red Sox. Pumpsie Green.|||For all those cute answers of post expansion, I will bet that from inception those teams had at least one minority player on them. Hence there was no point at which they became integrated, they started that way.

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|||Pumpsie Green joined the Red Sox, integrating the last team.





The Yankees were not that much better than them and if they were not so stubborn and bigoted they had the chance to have an all century outfield of Mantle, Mays and Aaron.|||Surprisingly, the Boston Red Sox, who became one of the 'blacker' teams in the 70s and 80s :O SHocked me!|||The Boston Red Sox was the last Major League Baseball Team to integrate|||Boston Red Sox. It disappoints me that Tom Yawkey was so respected yet so racist. And that both Willie Mays and Jackie Robinson tried out for the team and got cut. Imagine them with Ted Williams...ah.|||The Diamondbacks and Rays didn't have any minorities until 1998.|||The Nationals, they didn't intergrate until 2005|||Arizona and Tampa Bay - 1998|||Washington Senators|||The Red Sox intregrated in 1959 with Pumpse green|||I will say Rangers