Johnny Wright

Athlete

1919 –

69

Who is Johnny Wright?

John Richard "Johnny" Wright was a Negro League pitcher who played briefly in the International League of baseball's minor leagues in 1946, and was on the roster of the Montreal Royals at the same time as Jackie Robinson, making him a plausible candidate to have broken the baseball color barrier. Instead, Wright was demoted from Montreal and returned the next season to the Negro Leagues.

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Born
1919

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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