Charles Grant Jr. (August 31, 1874 – July 9, 1932) was an African American second baseman in Negro League baseball.
 Grant nearly crossed the baseball color line decades before Jackie Robinson when Major League Baseball manager John McGraw attempted to pass him off as a Native American named "Tokohama".
Charles Clyde Teague (born 1924) was an American professional baseball player.
 A second baseman, he played in minor league baseball.
 As a college baseball player for Wake Forest University, he was named an All-American in three seasons.
 In 2010, he was inducted into the National College Baseball Hall of Fame.
Jack Roosevelt Robinson (January 31, 1919 – October 24, 1972) was an American professional baseball second baseman who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball (MLB) in the modern era.
 Robinson broke the baseball color line when the Brooklyn Dodgers started him at first base on April 15, 1947.
 When the Dodgers signed Robinson, they heralded the end of racial segregation in professional baseball that had relegated black players to the Negro leagues since the 1880s.
 Robinson was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962.
This List of Negro league baseball champions includes champions of black baseball prior to the organization of any traditional Negro league and goes through to the collapse of segregated baseball after Jackie Robinson broke the baseball color line in 1946.
 Champions include self-declared, regional and (later) league champions, but is limited to top-tier teams and major Negro leagues.
 The champions listed after 1948 through the 1950s are listed for posterity, but the quality of play had deteriorated so far as to only incidentally be covered by contemporary media or historians.
Below is a list of the first black players in Major League Baseball in chronological order, since the abolition of the Baseball color line.
 During the 1880s, Moses Fleetwood Walker, a black man, had played for the Toledo Blue Stockings of the American Association (his brother Welday Walker also played a few games with the club), and it was essentially against Fleetwood Walker that the line was originally drawn.
 African-Americans had been excluded from major league baseball since 1884, and from all of professional baseball since 1889.
Jackie Robinson Day is a traditional event which occurs annually in Major League Baseball, commemorating and honoring the day Jackie Robinson made his major league debut.
 April 15 was Opening Day in 1947, Robinson's first season in the Major Leagues.
 Initiated for the first time on April 15, 2004, Jackie Robinson Day is celebrated each year on that day.
 The festivity is a result of Robinson's memorable career, best known for becoming the first black major league baseball player of the modern era in 1947.
 His debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers (today known as the Los Angeles Dodgers) ended approximately 80 years of baseball segregation, also known as the baseball color line, or color barrier.
 He also was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962, remembered for his services with the number 42 jersey.
Rodney Cline Carew (born October 1, 1945) is a former Major League Baseball (MLB) first baseman, second baseman and coach of Panamanian descent.
 He played from 1967 to 1985 for the Minnesota Twins and the California Angels and was elected to the All-Star game every season except his last.
 While Carew was never a home run threat (only 92 of his 3,053 hits were home runs), he made a career out of being a consistent contact hitter.
 He threw right-handed and batted left-handed.
 He was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame and the Caribbean Baseball Hall of Fame.
 Carew served as an MLB coach for several years after retiring as a player.
Richard Morrow "Dick" Groat (born November 4, 1930) is a former two-sport athlete best known as a shortstop in Major League Baseball.
 He played for four National League teams, mainly the Pittsburgh Pirates and St. Louis Cardinals, and was named the league's Most Valuable Player in 1960 after winning the batting title with a .325 average for the champion Pirates.
 From 1956 to 1962 he teamed with second baseman Bill Mazeroski to give Pittsburgh one of the game's strongest middle infields; he led the NL in double plays a record five times, in putouts four times and in assists twice.
 At the end of his career he ranked ninth in major league history in games at shortstop (1,877) and fourth in double plays (1,237), and was among the NL career leaders in putouts (10th, 3,505), assists (8th, 5,811) and total chances (9th, 9,690).
 Also an excellent basketball player, he attended Duke University and is a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity.
 He was twice an All-American at Duke and was voted as the Helms National Player of the Year in 1952 after averaging 25.2 points per game.
 He played one season as a guard in the National Basketball Association.
 In 2011 Groat was inducted into the National College Baseball Hall of Fame, becoming the first man ever inducted into both the college basketball and college baseball halls of fame.
 He is currently the color commentator for Pittsburgh Panthers men's basketball radio broadcasts.
John Alexander "Bid" McPhee (November 1, 1859 – January 3, 1943) was an American 19th-century Major League Baseball second baseman.
 He played 18 seasons in the majors, from 1882 until 1899 , all for the Cincinnati Reds franchise.
 He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2000 .
 Known more for his fielding than his hitting, McPhee was the last second baseman to play without a glove.
In Major League Baseball, the Rookie of the Year Award is annually given to one player from each league as voted on by the Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA).
 The award was established in 1940 by the Chicago chapter of the BBWAA, which selected an annual winner from 1940 through 1946.
 The award became national in 1947; Jackie Robinson, the Brooklyn Dodgers' second baseman, won the inaugural award.
 One award was presented for both leagues in 1947 and 1948; since 1949, the honor has been given to one player each in the National and American League.
 Originally, the award was known as the J. Louis Comiskey Memorial Award, named after the Chicago White Sox owner of the 1930s.
 The award was renamed the Jackie Robinson Award in July 1987, 40 years after Jackie Robinson broke the baseball color line.

Question: Charles Grant Jr.nearly crossed the baseball color line decades before a second baseman who was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in what year?
Answer: 1962