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Break from the Grind August 20, 2018
TRIVIAL PURSUITS: Who Was the First African-American to Play Baseball in the Major League?
Jackie Robinson is most often cited as the first African American player in Major League Baseball; but he wasn’t.
Reported by PS
Moses Fleetwood Walker was the first African American to play in Major League Baseball. He was a catcher.
Having played several seasons with a white “minor-league team in Toledo,” he joined the American Association when the Toledo Blue Stockings were admitted to the league.
However, due to racial tensions and threats, he only played one season. This was 63 years before Jackie Robinson joined the Major League.
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