History preserved in Kansas City with Negro Leagues museum.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

From: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service | Date: September 19, 2003| Author: O'Brien, Kathleen | Copyright information

Byline: Kathleen O'Brien

KANSAS CITY, Mo. _ Most baseball fans know who Jackie Robinson was. He broke the color barrier by playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947.

But few know Moses Fleetwood Walker was the first black player in the major leagues, 63 years before Robinson. He played for Toledo when it joined the American Association, then a major league, in 1884, but the color barrier was effectively raised three years later when the International League, th...

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