On March 18, 1942; Jackie Robinson and Nate Moreland
requested a tryout with the Chicago White Sox during the team’s spring training
in Pasadena, California. Reluctantly,
Jimmy Dykes allowed both to go through a workout on the field, but neither was
offered a contract. Everyone knows that
Robinson went on to sign with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1945 and in 1947 became the
First African American since the 20th Century began to play Major
League baseball.
But what happened to Nathaniel Edmund Moreland? Before the tryout with the White Sox, the 6’1’’
right hander pitched in the Negro Leagues for the Baltimore Elite Giants (1940)
and also in the Mexican League (1941).
After the White Sox tryout, he spent the remainder of his career in the
Mexican League and the Class C minor leagues; except in 1945 when he played once
again with the Elite Giants.
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