Talk:Moses Fleetwood Walker

message: There's a line that says "For the season, he had a .263 BA, which was top three in the league," but it should say 'team' not 'league.' The top 10 players in the league all hit .300 or better; you can check baseball reference for the 1884 AA season. I'm apologizing in advance for not being able to put this comment in the proper place. 165.225.32.114 (talk) 15:58, 31 January 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Four years later, and I noticed the same thing. I’ve updated it. Just saw this comment and thought I’d reply. 2601:87:4002:5C0:E55B:ED48:8A86:C5D7 (talk) 02:59, 10 January 2023 (UTC)
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message: :Walker has traditionally been credited as the first African-American major league player. Recent research by the Society for American Baseball Research indicates William Edward White, who played one game for the Providence Grays in 1879, was the son of a white former slave-holder and his mulatto mistress.
SABR did not indicate White 'was the son of a white former slave-holder and his mulatto mistress.'
They indicated he may have been the first African-American major league player, as the previous version indicated.
I am reverting that change. Econrad 1 July 2005 05:22 (UTC)
:From the Providence Journal 2/15/2004 (free registration required):
:"The mystery of White's background and life goes back to a plantation in rural Georgia. He was the son of a white plantation owner, who was also a captain in the Confederate Army, and his mulatto servant."
::OK, to be more precise: The anonymous user removed all references to the point that White may have been the first professional black baseball player.  Very misleading. Econrad 3 July 2005 13:12 (UTC)
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Looking at other changes, the anonymous user also deleted the 'law school' reference from the section that read 'He then attended the University of Michigan law school'
Why?
I am reverting the entire edit.  
Econrad 1 July 2005 05:33 (UTC)
:::Walker has traditionally been credited as the first African-American major league player? Nonsense. Walker has been ignored. The baseball universe parrots Bud Selig's hacks in the PR Department in claiming Jackie Robinson was first. Traditionally the world has run from Walker like he was a pariah.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.36.245.254 (talk) 16:11, 9 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edits by 24.196.83.46 

message: An anonymous editor had changed the word [sic] used in a quotation to [sick]. Not only is this an incorrect spelling, but the quotation didn't even have an error in it. The quotation said, "It was announced on the ground ..." with "ground" supposedly being an error, but "ground" was a valid term to refer to a baseball field, certainly in the 19th century even if it seems antiquated today. --Metropolitan90 23:12, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
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message: Fleet Walker was still in college in 1879, and this link  shows that he was not on the 1879 club, or if he was, it certainly wasn't under his real name. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 04:22, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Syracuse? 

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message: The phrase "openly black" will sound odd to many non-US readers. Here in the UK, "black" might refer to skin colour, or to evident African ancestry. Ok, I know of the absurd "one drop" rule, but many non-US readers won't, and I wonder if it needs explaining. Maproom (talk) 10:54, 2 April 2017 (UTC)
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