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Mt. Pleasant hosts vintage baseball game honoring Moses Fleetwood Walker, the first African American MLB player
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Black Americans Who Loved and Changed the Game of Baseball
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Breaking the color barrier a half century before Jackie Robinson - Toledo City Paper
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Jackie Robinson and Moses Fleetwood Walker: The Lives and Careers of the Players Who Integrated Major League Baseball
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JackieRobinson wasn't the first! 😮 Okay, lemme clarify. Jackie WAS t
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Jackie Robinson wasn't the first African American Major League player - The Washington Post
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Discover Greatness: Part 1 - Yogi Berra Museum & Learning Center
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Moses Fleetwood “Fleet” Walker (1856-1924) - Find a Grave Memorial
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On Jackie Robinson Day, remember the Black men who played in the majors before he broke the color barrier
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