List of first black Major League Baseball players
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List of first black Major League Baseball players
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The baseball color line excluded players of Black African descent from Major League Baseball and its affiliated Minor Leagues until 1947. Before 1885 at least three African-American men played in the major leagues: William Edward White, whose light skin color allowed him pass as white, played one game for the Providence Grays in 1879; Moses Fleetwood Walker, an openly Black man who played for the Toledo Blue Stockings of the American Association between May 1 and September 4, 1884; and his broth
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2004-10-16T15:51:33Z
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