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Across
  1. 2. Barksdale, the first Black player to compete as an Olympian for the United States in basketball
  2. 3. Robinson, the first African American to play in Major League Baseball
  3. 6. Pollard, the first African American to become a head coach in the NFL
  4. 8. Wharton, the first Black Professional Soccer Player
  5. 9. Jordan was the first player in ANY sport to have his shoe brand named after him and one of the first athletes of any kind to be a multi-millionaire
Down
  1. 1. Gaston, the first African-American manager to win World Series
  2. 2. Hubbard, a track and field athlete who was the first African American to win an Olympic gold medal in an individual event
  3. 4. Gibson, the first black woman to win a Grand Slam title in tennis
  4. 5. Ashe, the first and only African American man to win multiple tennis Grand Slam titles
  5. 7. Russell, the Boston Celtics legend