Black History - Athletes - Call List

(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. There is no need to say the BINGO column name. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.

1. 1st African American heavyweight champion
   Jack Johnson
2. As a member of the Nego American league's Indianapolis Clowns, wa the 1st woman to ever play professional baseball as aregular on a big-league team.
   Marcenia Lyle "Toni" Stone
3. 1st skater of African descent to reach the top ranks of international skating
   Debi Thomas
4. 1st African American baseball umpire
   Emmett Ashford
5. 1st African American to swim across the English Channel
   Charles Chapman
6. The 1st African- American to start in NASCAR & the most successful
   Wendell Scott
7. Fastest bicycle rider in the world
   Marshall "Major" Taylor
8. "the Brown Bomber" Heavyweight champion in boxing from 1937 - 1949
   Joe Louis
9. 1st Black Hockey player to represent the U.S. at the Winter Olympics in 2018
   Jordan Greenway
10. 1st Black to coach in the NBA
    Bill Russell
11. 1st American woman to win 3 gold medals at a single Olympic games
    Wilma Rudolph
12. 1st African American to win a Pro Bowling Associate PBA title
    George Branham III
13. Won 3 gold, 1 silver, & 2 bronze medals in track & field at four different Olympic games
    Jackie Joyner-Kersee
14. Won gold medal in the 2024 Olympics 100 m in 9.79 seconds
    Noah Lyles
15. 1st Black woman to win an individual Olympic gold medal in swimming
    Simone Manuel
16. The "GOAT" of basketball "Air Jordan"
    Michael Jordan
17. "Skywalker" One of 10 players to score 70 or more points in a NBA game
    David Thompson
18. 6x world champion in boxing. Once as a welterweight and 5x as a middleweight
    Sugar Ray Robinson
19. 1st African American to win an Olympic Gold medal
    John Baxter Taylor, Jr.
20. 1st Black player in the NHL
    Willie O'Ree
21. 1st woman to dunk in the WNBA
    Lisa Leslie
22. 1st African American pitcher in Major League Baseball
    Dan Bankhead
23. The 1st African American bowler to compete in a nationally televised tournament.
    Maurice Kilgore
24. 1st Olympian to win four gold medals
    Jesse Owens
25. 1st African American to manage an organized, integrated, pro baseball team
    Roy Campanella
26. 1st Black pitcher to pitch in a World Series game
    Satchel Page
27. Known as the "Black Babe Ruth" from the Negro baseball league
    Josh Gibson
28. The only black man ever to win the singles titles at Wimbledon, US Open and the Australian Open
    Arthur Ashe
29. 1st African American to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame
    Emlen Tunnell
30. Baseball player with 755 home runs
    Hank Aaron
31. Has won more Grand Slam Singles tennis titles (23)mthan any other man or woman during the open era
    Serena Williams
32. Won an Olympic gold medal in Sitting Volleyball in the 2016 Paralympic games
    Nicky Nieves
33. 1st Black woman to win a Grand Slam (French Open)
    Althea Gibson
34. 1st Black head coach to win the SuperBowl.
    Tony Dungy
35. 1st Black woman All American basketball player
    Missouri "Big Mo" Arledge
36. 1st African American to play pro-football & also 1st black to play in the Rose Bowl.
    Fritz Pollard
37. 1st person of African American and Native American descent inducted into the US Figure Skating Hal of Fame
    Mabel Fairbanks
38. 1st African American major league baseball player
    Moses Fleetwood Walker
39. Only Black quarterback to win 3 Super Bowls
    Patrick Mahomes
40. 1st athlete to win both the 200 & 400 meter race in the 1996 Olympic games
    Michael Johnson
41. "King James" one of the greatest basketball players of all time. Has won 4 NBA championships
    LeBron James
42. Youngest prizefighter ever to win the heavyweight championship of the world
    Mike Tyson
43. Golfer, Tied for 1st place in PGA tour wins. Has held the #1 player for the most consecutive weeks of any golfer in history.
    Tiger Woods
44. 1st African American professional hockey player
    Arthur Dorrington
45. 1st American woman to medal in both Winter and Summer Olympic games. Track & Field and Bobsled
    Lauryn Williams
46. 1st Black woman in Long Track Speedskating to win a world cup race and to medal individually.
    Erin Jackson
47. 1st American woman to win 4 gold medals in Track & Field in a single Olymics
    Florence "Flo Jo" Griffith Joyner
48. 1st African American inducted into the Professional Baseball Hall of Fame
    Jackie Robinson
49. Has 11 Olympic medals and 30 World Championship medals in gymnastics
    Simone Biles
50. She won the 2025 Australian Open Women's Single Tennis Title
    Madison Keyes
51. 1st African American to be issued a PROFESSIONAL Golf Associate (PGA) card as an "approved player>"
    Charlie Sifford
52. 1st African American General Manager of an NBA team "Milwaukee Bucks"
    Wayne Embry
53. 1st African American boxing promoter
    Truman K. Gibson
54. Scholar, actor & performer, an All-American football star, Valedictorian of his class at Rutgers & earned a law degree from Columbia Univ.
    Paul Robeson
55. 1st African American female to be issued a Professional Golfers Association (PGA) card
    Renee Powell
56. Jockey, winner of the 1st Kentucky Derby 5/17/1875
    Oliver Lewis
57. 1st African American to win an individual gold medal in long jump at the Paril Olympic games in 1924
    William DeHart Hubbard
58. 6x WNBA All-Star as a basketball player & 3x NCAA Div I Tournament Champion as a coach
    Dawn Staley
59. 1st Black woman to win an Olympic Gold medal
    Alice Coachman