By Tamara Shiloh Some 63 years before Jackie Robinson is credited as the first African American in Major League Baseball (April 15, 1947), Moses Fleetwood Walker (1856–1924) became the true first to break the sport’s color barrier. The American Association (today, the American League) was formed at the opening of the 1884 baseball season. Their […]
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