Roy E. Partlow (June 18, 1911 – April 19, 1987) was an American

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Negro league baseball The Negro leagues were United States professional baseball leagues comprising teams of African Americans and, to a lesser extent, Latin Americans. The term may be used broadly to include professional black teams outside the leagues and it may be ...

. He played between 1934 and 1951. In 1946, he was one of the first African American players signed by the

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organization. He spent part of that season playing with

Jackie Robinson Jack Roosevelt Robinson (January 31, 1919 – October 24, 1972) was an American professional baseball player who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball (MLB) in the modern era. Robinson broke the baseball color line ...

at Montreal before being sent to the

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."Roy Partlow Negro League Statistics & History"
Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved June 10, 2012.

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