| JACKIEROBINSON | First Black player to hit the field in Major League Baseball, 75 yrs ago (6,8) |
| STARTINGELEVEN | "Is this the first day's lineup?" ("No, it's the first team on the field in the World Cup") |
| CHARLIESIFFORD | First black player allowed to compete on the PGA TOUR |
| RORY | In 2009, ____ McLeod was the first black player to qualify for the World Snooker Championship |
| INCE | Who was the first black player to captain the England football team? (4) |
| NAT | ___ "Sweetwater" Clifton, one of the first Black players to play in the NBA |
| ALTHEA | ..... Gibson was the first Black player to win the French Open, Wimbledon, and U.S. Open singles tennis championships? (6) |
| WORRELL | First black player to captain the West Indies cricket team (7) |
| ASHE | First black player to win Wimbledon men's crown (4) |
| ROBINSON | Jackie, first African American to play in Major League Baseball in the U.S. in 1947 (8) |
| PATIDAR | RCB batter who scored an unbeaten 112 off 54 balls in the IPL 2022 Eliminator, becoming the first uncapped player to hit a century in the playoffs.(Last Name) (7) |
| WILLIEOREE | Member of the Order of Canada, Fredericton-born hockey legend, the first Black player in the NHL, his jersey No. |
| OREE | Former Bruins winger Willie who was the first Black player in the NHL |
| JACOBY | Ellsbury who was the first Native American of Navajo descent to play in Major League Baseball |
| WAR | The Cold _ with the Soviets started 75 yrs ago (3) |
| COMO | Singer Perry ___ was top of the charts 75 yrs ago (4) |
| GEHRIG | Lou ---, American sportsman who played 17 seasons in Major League Baseball for the New York Yankees in the 1920s and '30s (6) |
| ALYSSA | ___ Nakken, first woman to be a full-time coach in Major League Baseball history |
| RAUCH | Jon ___, at 6'11" the tallest player in Major League Baseball history |
| KIMNG | First female G.M. in major league baseball history (for the Miami Marlins) |
