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media type="custom" key="3378364" Runs:23 Batting Average: .263 || Walker suffered a season-ending injury in July, and Toledo ended the year going out of business. Walker returned to the minor leagues in [|1885], and played in the [|Western League] for Cleveland, which folded in June. He then played for Waterbury in the [|Eastern League] though [|1886]. In [|1887] Walker moved to the [|International League] [|Newark Little Giants]. He caught for star pitcher [|George Stovey], forming the first known African-American battery. || Polished, handsome, urbane, a man of letters, and a superb athlete, Fleet Walker was an absolute Renaissance man who had a bright major-league career cut short by the atavistic mentality that ruled late 19th-century American baseball.
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 * [[image:http://www.betterphoto.com/uploads/processed/0022/0504280314581childhood.jpg width="299" height="185"]] || childhood || Walker was born in Mount Pleasant, Ohio on October 7, 1857. He was the son of the very first african american physician in Mount Pleasant. ||
 * [[image:http://www.explorepahistory.com/images/ExplorePAHistory-a0a0o3-a_349.jpg width="303" height="207"]] || debut and position || walker made his major lague debut on may 1, 1884 with the Toledo Blue Stockings. walker played catcher for the blue stockings until his last major league appearence on semptember 4,1884 ||
 * [[image:http://www.ballstat.com/images/box_015.jpg width="315" height="213"]] || stats || Games Played: 42
 * [[image:http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_V5qwzCShIpw/RxA2AlbL7NI/AAAAAAAAAPo/4GndqcdzNLg/s320/toledo(aa+1884+trick+mcsorley+2+from+left).jpg]] || team || walker played for the toledo blue stockings which are no longer a major league franchise. in 1883 the toledo blue stockings formed a minor league ball club. the following year they joined as a major league team. toledo is known for having a team with black players (moses and welday walker). toledo unfortunatly disbanded a year later in 1885. ||
 * [[image:http://obrienbaseball.com/images/baseball_firstbase.jpg width="325" height="206"]] || career || Walker's teammate and star pitcher, [|Tony Mullane], stated Walker "was the best catcher I ever worked with, but I disliked a Negro and whenever I had to pitch to him I used to pitch anything I wanted without looking at his signals."[|[][|2][|]]
 * [[image:http://www.oll.state.oh.us/content_files_user/5123/5473.jpg width="327" height="206"]] || bio || In the summer of 1881, no baseball game had greater ramifications—on the sport or, in broader terms, on American culture—than did a long-forgotten August 21 contest in Louisville, Kentucky, between the hometown Eclipse and the White Sewing Machine Company team of Cleveland, Ohio. Though the Eclipse won 6-3, the victory came under extenuating and ugly circumstances. The Ohio squad was forced to compete without its best player, an African-American catcher named **Moses Fleetwood Walker**, whose race brought objections from several Louisville players. The following morning, the //Louisville Courier-Journal// ran a story about the game under a principal headline that read: “A Disabled Club.” A supporting headline expanded on this thought: “An Uncalled For Exhibition Of Prejudice On The Field Towards A Quadroon.”

Moses Fleetwood Walker was born on October 7, 1857, in Mt. Pleasant, Ohio. His mother, Caroline, and father, Moses W., were both of mixed race. Caroline worked as a midwife, while Moses was an expert cooper and jack of all trades. The boy everyone would come to call “Fleet” was their fifth child || Walker was charged with second-degree murder and claimed self-defense. He was acquitted of all charges on [|June 3], [|1891]. The //Cleveland Gazette// reported "When the verdict was announced the court house was thronged with spectators, who received it with a tremendous roar of cheers... Walker is the hero of the hour."[|[][|6][|]] Walker became a supporter of [|Black nationalism] and came to believe [|racial integration] would fail in the [|United States]. In [|1908] he published a 47-page pamphlet titled //Our Home Colony: A Treatise on the Past, Present, and Future of the Negro Race in America//. In that pamphlet he recommended African Americans emigrate to [|Africa]: "the only practical and permanent solution of the present and future race troubles in the United States is entire separation by emigration of the Negro from America."[|[][|7][|]] He warned "The Negro race will be a menace and the source of discontent as long as it remains in large numbers in the United States. The time is growing very near when the whites of the United States must either settle this problem by deportation, or else be willing to accept a reign of terror such as the world has never seen in a civilized country."[|[][|5][|]] He died [|May 11], [|1924] in [|Cleveland, Ohio], and is interred at Union Cemetery in [|Steubenville, Ohio]. || William Edward White was the son of a white former slaveholder from [|Georgia] and his mixed-race mistress. White attended college at [|Brown University] where he also played varsity baseball. He filled in for one game for the Grays on June 21 when the [|Providence] team was short-handed. It is unclear, however, if White's contemporaries in [|Rhode Island] knew of his racial background. White's race is never mentioned in any accounts of his baseball exploits at Brown or with Providence. Furthermore, the [|1880 census], as well as several later censuses, indicate his race as "white".[|[][|9][|]] He may have been [|passing] as a white man during his time in Rhode Island. ||
 * [[image:http://192.220.96.153/assets/images/walker.jpg width="327" height="241"]] || life after baseball || Walker was attacked by a group of white men in [|Syracuse, New York] in April 1891. He stabbed and killed a man named Patrick Murray during the attack. //The Sporting Life// reported "Walker drew a knife and made a stroke at his assailant. The knife entered Murray's groin, inflicting a fatal wound. Murray's friends started after Walker with shouts of 'Kill him! Kill him!' He escaped but was captured by the police, and [was] locked up."[|[][|5][|]]
 * [[image:http://www.brooklynonline.com/images/ebbets.jpg width="337" height="243"]] || baseball history || Walker has traditionally been credited as the first African-American major league player. Research in the mid-2000s by the [|Society for American Baseball Research] indicates [|William Edward White], who played one game for the [|Providence Grays] in [|1879], may have been the first.[|[][|8][|]]

script: What would basbeall be today without walker then? Moses Fleetwood walker was vorn in Mt. Pleasant, Ohio on October 7, 1857. he was the fifth child of Caroline and Moses w. walker who were of mixed race. His mother, Caroline, worked as a midwife while his father became the first african american physician in Mt. Pleasant. Walker made his major league debut on May 1, 1884 for the Toledo Blue Stockings. He played catcher for the blue stockings until his last major league appearence on september 4, 1884. while only playing 42 major league games walker did manage not only break to the color barrier but he also put up average numbers such as 23 runs and a batting avg of .263. Walker played for the Toledo Blue Stockings for all of his 42 games. Toledo was well known for having two african american players...which were moses fleetwood walker and his brother welday walker. in 1883 toledo was accepted as a minor league ball club until 1884 when it bacame a major league franchise. unfortunately in 1885, the next year, toledo had to disband. Toledo is no longer a team. Walker played with a great pitcher named Tony Mullane. Mullane stated that "walker was the best catcher i ever worked with." unfortunatly, Walker had a season ending injury and then could no longer play. However, in 1885 walker returned to baseball to play in the minor leagues with Clevland. in April 1891, after walker had retired, he was attacked by a group of white men in Syracuse, New York. In an act of self-defense walker stabbed and killed a man named Patrick Murray during the attack. After this walker fled but the police caught up with him and locked him up. Walker was charged with second degree murder and claimed self defense. Walker was acquitted of all charges. Walker has been credited with being the first african american to play in major league baseball however there is some speculation about a man named William Edward White who played one game in 1879. Because there is no real factual evidence the title of first african american major league player will go to Moses Fleetwood Walker.