Moses Fleetwood Walker; SHORT Stop POD

While Jackie Robinson is rightfully embraced as the man who would smash the color line in 1947, it was Moses Fleetwood Walker who was actually the first black man to play Major League Baseball, a whole 63 years before Jackie would take center stage. In fact, it was due to Walkers participation during that 1884 season, that the powers that be, would establish the racist color line. This is the oft-forgotten story of Moses Fleetwood Walker. Backwards K Pod Where We Collect Ballplayers And Their Stories #MosesFleetwoodWalker #WeldyWalker #MichiganWolverines #ToledoBlueStockings #ChicagoWhiteStockings #WilliamEdwardWhite #WilliamVoltz #TommyMullane #JakeRobinson #BackwardsKPod #LetsTalkBaseballPodcastNetwork