Jackie Robinson was the first white player to win the National League Most Valuable Player Award.
Jack Roosevelt Robinson -LRB- January 31 , 1919 -- October 24 , 1972 -RRB- was an American professional baseball second baseman who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball -LRB- MLB -RRB- in the modern era .
Jackie Robinson
was
the first white player to win the National League Most Valuable Player Award
the first African American to play in Major League Baseball -LRB- MLB -RRB-