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Article: Joe Black, baseball pioneer and retired Greyhound Corp. executive, dies. (Census).(Obituary)
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- Jet
- Article date:
- June 3, 2002
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Joe Black, the first Black pitcher to win a World Series game, recently died of cancer in Phoenix. He was 78. Black, who was in failing health for months, died at the Life Care Center of Scottsdale in Phoenix.
Black spent a season in the minors before the Brooklyn Dodgers promoted him to the major leagues in 1952, five years after teammate Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color barrier.
Dominant out of the bullpen, he was chosen Rookie of the Year after winning 15 games and saving 15 others for the National League champion.
Strapped for pitching, Dodgers manager Chuck Dressen brought Black out of the bullpen and started him three times in seven ...