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TIL The First African American Professional Baseball Player was a man named William Edward White, who played one game for the Providence Grays in 1879. : r/todayilearned
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Moses Fleetwood Walker: editor, author and major league baseball's first black star, Baseball
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May 1, 1884: Fleet Walker's major-league debut – Society for American Baseball Research
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Moses Fleetwood Walker: editor, author and major league baseball's first black star, Baseball