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Canadian ice hockey player
Ice hockey player
Art Dorrington
(March 13, 1930 ? December 29, 2017) was a Canadian professional
ice hockey
centre
.
Dorrington became the first black hockey player to sign a
National Hockey League
(NHL) contract when he joined the
New York Rangers
organization in 1950.
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Despite putting up very good statistics in the minor leagues, he was never able to make it to the major league ranks. Dorrington played for the
Atlantic City Seagulls
of the
Eastern Hockey League
.
After retiring from hockey, Dorrington joined the
Atlantic County Sheriff's Office
.
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In the late 1990s he created the Art Dorrington Ice Hockey Foundation, a program that teaches hockey to children from low-income families in
Atlantic City
.
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He died on December 29, 2017, at the age of 87 in Atlantic City.
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