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Walker, joined by Weldy who enrolled in the class of 1885, played on the baseball club's first inter-collegiate team.

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In 1881, Oberlin lifted their ban on off-campus competition. Walker gained stardom and mentions in the school newspaper, The Oberlin Review, for his ball handling and ability to hit long home runs. Oberlin men played baseball as early as 1865-including a “jet black” first baseman whose presence meant Walker was not the college's first black baseball player-with organized clubs that engaged in intense matchups. How Walker first came to play baseball is uncertain: according to Zang, the game was popular among Steubenville children, and while in Oberlin's preparatory program Walker became the prep team's catcher and leadoff hitter. At Oberlin, Walker proved himself to be an excellent student, especially in mechanics and rhetoric, but by his sophomore year, he was rarely attending classes. Īs an adult, Walker enrolled at Oberlin College in 1878, where he majored in philosophy and the arts. Walker and Weldy attended Steubenville High School in the early 1870s, just as the community passed legislation for racial integration. There, Walker's fifth or sixth sibling, his younger brother Weldy, was born the same year. When Walker was three years old, the family moved 20 miles northeast to Steubenville where Mr Walker senior became one of the first black physicians of Ohio, and later a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Zang, his father came to Ohio from Pennsylvania, likely a beneficiary of Quaker patronage, and married O'Harra, who was a native of the state, on June 11, 1843. According to Walker's biographer David W.

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Walker and Caroline O' Harra, were both mixed race. Its population included a large Quaker community and a unique collective of former Virginian slaves. Moses Fleetwood Walker was born in 1856 in Mount Pleasant, a working-class town in Eastern Ohio that had served as a sanctuary for runaway slaves since 1815. He published a book, Our Home Colony (1908), to explore ideas about emigrating back to Africa. As an advocate of black nationalism, Walker also jointly edited a newspaper, The Equator, with his brother. After his baseball career, he became a successful businessman and inventor.

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Walker played in the minor leagues until 1889, and was the last African-American to participate on the major league level before Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color line in 1947.

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Walker played just one season, 42 games total, for Toledo before injuries entailed his release. His brother, Weldy, became the second black athlete to do likewise later in the same year, also for the Toledo ball club. Though research by the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) indicates William Edward White was the first African-American baseball player in the major leagues, Walker, unlike White (who passed as a white man), was the first to be open about his black heritage, and to face the racial bigotry so prevalent in the late 19th century United States. A native of Mount Pleasant, Ohio, and a star athlete at Oberlin College as well as the University of Michigan, Walker played for semi-professional and minor league baseball clubs before joining the Toledo Blue Stockings of the American Association (AA) for the 1884 season.

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Moses Fleetwood " Fleet" Walker (Octo– May 11, 1924) was an American professional baseball catcher who, historically, was credited with being the first black man to play in Major League Baseball (MLB). September 4, 1884, for the Toledo Blue Stockings May 1, 1884, for the Toledo Blue Stockings









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