With the Red Sox having signed 33-year-old talented and established Black infielder, Lorenzo “Piper” Davis, to a minor league contract, Davis is the first Black player to join the Red Sox organization. According to the African American Registry, his signing “ends an era of racial exclusion” by the Red Sox. Davis was a player/manager for future Hall of Famer Willie Mays’ team at the time. Mays signs with the New York Giants that same year. The Red Sox also attempt to acquire Black future Hall of Famer Larry Doby from Cleveland. Butler, Joe M. “Sockers Awaiting Visit By Cronin on Saturday.” (Scranton Times-Tribune, 30 Mar.
1950, p. 31.)