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Samuel Jethroe (January 23, 1917 – June 16, 2001),
nicknamed "the Jet", was an
American center fielder in
Negro league and
Major League Baseball. With...
- "Unheralded
Jethroe broke barriers with Braves". MLB.com.
Retrieved 10
April 2016. "Obituary: Sam
Jethroe". TheGuardian.com. 17 July 2001. "Sam
Jethroe Stats"...
- have won
Rookie of the Year and the Cy
Young Award in the same year. Sam
Jethroe is the
oldest player to have won the award, at age 32, 33 days
older than...
- on a 1972
episode of
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In.
Mustin guest starred as
Jethroe Collins, the son of a
victim of
Jesse James, who
dissuaded Bobby's idolization...
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several episodes of The
Rifleman from 1959 to 1962: "Blood Brother" as
Jethroe, "The
Spiked Rifle" as Stark, "The Gr****hopper" as Ryerson, "The Silent...
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winner and
first African-American
player on the Braves, Sam
Jethroe, on the roster.
Jethroe, at the age of 35, had been
demoted to the
minor leagues. He...
- teams.
White and Day
paved the way for ****ure
black Maple Leafs like Sam
Jethroe,
Elston Howard, Earl Battey, Dave Pope,
Humberto Robinson,
Connie Johnson...
- on a talk show in "Out of This World" (season five). Burt
Mustin plays Jethroe Collins, the son of a
victim of
Jesse James,
invited over by Mike Brady...
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become the
fifth team in MLB to
break the
color line when they
fielded Sam
Jethroe. The only no-hitter of the
season was
pitched by Vern
Bickford on August...
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Major League outfielder Waite Hoyt –
Major League Hall of
Famer Sam
Jethroe –
Negro league and
Major League center fielder Tommy Lasorda –
Major League...
