Johnny Wright

Biography

John Richard Wright (November 28, 1916 – May 4, 1990) was an American professional baseball pitcher who played in the Negro leagues and 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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