from "Tri-Cities" (the area now known as the  Quad Cities ) to  Milwaukee  (in 1951) and then to  St. Louis  (in 1955); the  Royals from  Rochester  to  Cincinnati  (in 1957); and the  Pistons  from  Fort Wayne  to  Detroit  (in 1957). Although  Japanese-American   Wataru Misaka  technically broke the NBA color barrier