Rube Foster, a former ballplayer, founded the Negro National League in 1920. He was not as good a ballplayer as Larry Doby. He is the first ballplayer born in Jamaica to appear in an MLB game. He grew up hoping to one day become either a priest or ballplayer. No man acted with more natural grace as a ballplayer. Nearly 40 years after retiring, Allen remains a much discussed and still controversial ballplayer. No other non-Yankee ballplayer has appeared in that many World Series for the same team. Other teams, however, had more serious interest in signing a black ballplayer. Miller also said that Flood was primarily challenging the reserve clause as a professional ballplayer. In 1957, Reese yielded his starting role to another black ballplayer, Charlie Neal. Albert "Butts" Wagner was considered the ballplayer of the family.