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Jackie Robinson was a Major league baseball player, he was:

• The first African-American to play on a Major League baseball team in the 20th century.
• The first Rookie of the Year Award is awarded to Jackie Robinson.
• The first African-American to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
• The first Major League baseball player to be honored on a U.S. postage stamp.
• The first baseball player to have his uniform number (42) across all teams by the Major League.
• The first UCLA student to earn a varsity letter in all four sports: baseball, basketball, football and track.
• The first African-American baseball player to receive the Congressional Gold Medal.
• The first African-American to serve as Vice-President of a major American corporation, Chock Full O' Nuts 1957-1964.

NFL quarterback: Willie Thrower, 1953 he was the first African American player to appear in a "modern-era" (Post World War II) professional game at the quarterback position in the National Football League for the Chicago Bears in 1953. In college he quarterbacked Michigan State to a national championship in 1952.

NFL football coach: Fritz Pollard, 1922–1937. A highly successful football and track athlete, Fritz Pollard became the first African American to play in the Rose Bowl when he played for Brown University in 1916 and the first African American to coach in the National Football League (NFL) in 1922. He assembled and coached the all-black Chicago Black Hawks football team, which became one of the most popular teams from 1929 to 1932.

Tiger Woods is an American professional golfer whose achievements to date rank him among the most successful golfers of all time. Currently the World No. 1, he was the highest-paid professional athlete in 2008, having earned an estimated $110 million from winnings and endorsements.^[7]

Woods has won fourteen professional major golf championships, the second highest of any male player, and 71 PGA Tour events, third all time.^[8] He has more career major wins and career PGA Tour wins than any other active golfer. He is the youngest player to achieve the career Grand Slam, and the youngest and fastest to win 50 tournaments on tour.

Woods has held the number one position in the world rankings for the most consecutive weeks and for the greatest total number of weeks. He has been awarded PGA Player of the Year a record nine times, the Byron Nelson Award for lowest adjusted scoring average a record eight times, and has the record of leading the money list in nine different seasons. He has been named Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year a record-tying four times, and is the only person to be named Sports Illustrated's Sportsman of the Year more than once.

NHL hockey player: Willie O'Ree, is a retired professional ice hockey player, known best for being the first black player in the National Hockey League. O'Ree played as a winger for the Boston Bruins. He is frequently but erroneously referred to as the first African American player; while he is black, he is in fact a Canadian born and remains a Canadian national. Additionally, O'Ree is referred to as the "Jackie Robinson of ice hockey" due to breaking the colour barrier in the sport. Willie also has a visual impairment.








Marshall W. "Major" Taylor, was an American cyclist who won the world one-mile track cycling championship in 1899 after setting numerous world records and overcoming racial discrimination. Taylor was the second African-American athlete to achieve the level of world championship—after boxer George Dixon.








Tennis champion: Althea Gibson became the first black person to play in and win Wimbledon and the United States national tennis championship. She won both tournaments twice, in 1957 and 1958. In all, Gibson won 56 tournaments, including five Grand Slam singles events.





The first black male champion was Arthur Ashe who won the 1968 U.S. Open, the1970 Australian Open, and the 1975 Wimbledon championship.