who was the first minority athlete on the cover of sports illustrated?
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Tyra Banks...in the swimsuit edition!!!
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Andre Ware won in 1989 to be come 1st black QB. The year Jim Brown definitely should have won it, it was given to the golden boy Paul Hornung of Notre Dame.
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Espn, at least two people have this name according to the SSA.
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Bob Uecker.\n\nexcerpt:  Uecker jokingly identifies himself by the sobriquet of "Mr. Baseball".
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yes, actually.  You might be surprised to hear this, but Derek Jeter struggled early with baseball...ive also heard that carl crawford struggled early in high school.  On the flipside, there have been players that were exceptionally gifted in baseball that played other sports.  For example, Chris Drury of the Buffalo Sabres in the NHL pitched a no-hitter in the Little League World Series and got offers to play minor league baseball.  He turned them down to play hockey.  And Michael Jordan was a great high school player (not much when he tried baseball during his first retirement though...).  Also Greg Maddux turned down many hockey offers to play baseball....I guess baseball and hockey are intertwined...I play both...well thats all i got...
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1) Earl Lloyd, first to "play".  October 31, 1950, Earl Lloyd was the first African-American to play in an NBA game. Lloyd played one day before Chuck Cooper because of the schedule. http://www.aaregistry.com/african_american_history/424/First_Black_plays_in_NBA\nhttp://www.aaregistry.com/african_american_history/1523/Earl_Lloyd_one_of_the_1st_Black_NBA_players\n\n2) Chuck Cooper, first "drafted" out of college. On April 25, 1950, the Boston Celtics selected 6-foot-6-inch Chuck Cooper of Duquesne University in the second round, making Cooper the first black player to be drafted in the NBA. http://www.hoophall.com/exhibits/freedom_nba.htm\n\n3) I've found conflicting information for the first african-american to sign an NBA contract.\n\nNat Clifton was the first to sign an NBA contract (with New York). http://www.ringsurf.com/info/Sports/Basketball/NBA/NBA_History/NBA_-_A_Growing_League/\n\nHarold Hunter, first to "sign an NBA contract", out of North Carolina College (never played in the NBA, was cut during pre-season). http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04032/268055.stm
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Jim Thorpe.\n\nThere's a good book about Native American baseball players.  See the link below.\n\nThe Amazon review lists a bunch of players:\nouis Sockalexis(the first), Elijah Pinnance, George Johnson, Louis Leroy, and Moses Yellow Horse, along with profiles of better-known athletes such as Jim Thorpe, Charles Albert Bender, and John Tortes Meyers.
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I am going to guess Michael Jordan who tried a very short career in baseball were he got alot of media attention - but really stunk.  However, he was a player in the NBA first - then he gave it a try in MLB and went back to basketball.  \n\nThat's my guess!!!
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lou rawls \ncoretta king\nrosa parks\nluther vandross\nrichard pryor
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In 1998, Lesley Visser became the first female commentator on Monday Night Football. She had been the first female beat writer in the NFL when she covered the New England Patriots for the Boston Globe in the mid-1970s, and was the first and only woman to handle a Super Bowl Trophy presentation when she was a sportscaster with CBS. Visser was followed by several women on the sideline who were perceived as "eye candy", none of whom affected the ratings.
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id wanna say larry brown. gut instinct. kansas back in the day and then the detroit pistons. i think he has an ABA title as well, maybe.
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Chuck Cooper became the first black player to be drafted, Nat "Sweetwater" Clifton became the first to sign an NBA contract, Earl Lloyd became the first to play in an NBA regular-season game
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First Black wins Pulitzer Prize for photography \nOn this date in 1969, Moneta Sleet became the first African-American photographer awarded the Pulitzer Prize for journalism. \n\nPulitzer Prize winner: Gwendolyn Brooks, 1950, won the Pulitzer Prize in poetry.
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Wow, before I read the details, I had picked Barry Bonds and Kobe Bryant.  I would also like to add Terrill Owens for his selfishness.  Great Question!
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Vonetta Flowers was the First African American to have won the Gold Medal at the Olympic Winter Games. (in bobsleigh)
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Just type in Sports Illustrated.com.
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Louis Sockalexis, a Penobscot Indian, was believed to be the first Native American in the major leagues, signed in 1897 by the Cleveland Spiders, later the Cleveland Indians.\nJim Thorpe was also a native american and played in the MLB for 6 years.\n\n\nThis is the only thing that I could find:   Dr. Jeffrey Powers-Beck's, The American Indian Integration of Baseball, detailing the entrance of Native Americans in Major League Baseball