1. Roki Sasaki, LAD
The same year Jackie Robinson integrated the International League, Don Newcombe and Roy Campanella were being tested -- and bonding -- one rung down the Dodgers' farm system at Nashua.
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1. Roki Sasaki, RHP
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1. Ethan Holliday, SS/3B