Use of the word vocation before the sixteenth century referred firstly to the call by God to an individual, or calling of all humankind to salvation, particularly in the Vulgate, and more specifically to the vocation to the priesthood or to the religious life, which is still the usual sense in Roman Catholicism.
He was born in San Pedro, Californiaâ¦.   The first Filipino born player to play in MLB was Bobby Chouinard of the Oakland Athletics who played his first MLB game on May 26, 1996. Chouinard was born in Manila.
In 1947 Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in baseball and was  the first African American to play major league baseball. A member  of the Brooklyn Dodgers, Robinson waâ¦s the first African American to  break a record in the Negro league and was the best African  American baseball player in history. bob corly.