1950 Bowman #23, Don Newcombe RC ⭐ MLB Pioneer
On September 29, 1951, Don Newcombe becomes the first black, in The Show, to win twenty games in a season.
Don played in the Negro League for the Newark Eagles.

1951 Bowman #6, Don Newcombe ⭐ MLB Pioneer
On September 19, 1956, Don Newcombe hit two HRs in one game, for the third time in his career. The Brooklyn Dodgers beat the Cardinals in a 17 – 2 slaughter.
Don Newcombe played in the Negro League for the Newark Eagles.

1951 Bowman baseball cards are small pieces of cardboard art. ❤

1950 Bowman #23, Don Newcombe RC.
On September, 1950, at Shibe Park, in a desperate move, Brooklyn Manager Burt Shotton starts 2nd-year pitcher Don Newcombe in both games of a double header.
Newcombe pitched a complete game and was the winning pitcher of the first game, 2 – 0.
He missed pitching complete games in a in both games of doubleheader for the Brooklyn Dodgers by leaving in the 7th inning of the second game, trailing Curt Simmons and the Philadelphia Phillies, 2 – 0. The Dodgers came back and won 3-2, Gil Hodges delivers the key hit a bases-loaded single with 2 outs that scored all three runs.

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