<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Ashford" id="mw5w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Emmett Ashford">Emmett Ashford</a> becomes the first <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American" id="mw6A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="African-American">African-American</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umpire_(baseball)" id="mw6Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Umpire (baseball)">umpire</a> in organized <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball" id="mw6g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Baseball">baseball</a> by being authorized to be a substitute umpire in the Southwestern International League.