The San Francisco Giants have a rich history that spans over 130 years, but it was more than two years after Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier that the Giants finally did the same.
Hank Thompson, who began his career with the St. Louis Browns in 1947, was the third man to break the color barrier in Major League Baseball after Robinson and Larry Doby.
When Thompson joined the Giants in 1949, he would become the first African-American player to integrate two different teams, and the first to play in both the American and National League.