Moses Fleetwood Walker

ABOUT MOSES FLEETWOOD WALKER

The first black player in baseball who took the field decades before Jackie Robinson , and several years before the color line in baseball was drawn.

He played baseball at Oberlin College, where his outstanding performance got him an invitation to the University of Michigan - and there Walker experienced his first taste of prejudice.

He joined the Major League in 1884, and after a game against the Louisville Eclipse, the Louisville newspapers complained about his inclusion.

He was born in Mt. Pleasant, Ohio, the third oldest son of Moses, a cooper turned doctor and minister.

Unlike Jackie Robinson , he had no ambitions to challenge the status quo in baseball's segregation.