Mini D: Forming an oppinion then trying to find data to support it.
Classic. You think just because I did not mention the sources of my opinion (one of which is a notable american historian and sociologist, btw as well as
BlackBaseball.com mentioning
two names - and more), I do not have sources or do not know names? And you are so sure you don't even ask for explanation before making an allegation
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majic: http://www3.sympatico.ca/stewart.brown/Negro_Leagues.html Thanks, majic.
The site you referred me to is about Negro Leagues and it contains a statement that sounds like contradiction to me:
If Moses Walker, a catcher with the Toledo Blue Stockings was
"the only black to play Major League Baseball until 1947", the statement that
"The owners began barring blacks after Moses Walker had been driven from the game by prejudice and injuries in 1885" makes little sence.
They were not barring blacks before but did not have any except for that one?
Also, it was my impression that there were more than one black player in Major League.
Here is from
BlackBaseball.com:
When baseball attained professinal status the following season, pro teams were not bound by the amateur association's ruling, and during the 19th century black ballplayers appeared on integrated teams and some black teams played in integrated leagues. Two brothers, Moses Fleetwood Walker and Welday Walker, even played in the major leagues in 1884. But gradually, black players began to be excluded from the white leagues and by the beginning of the new century, there were no black players in organized baseball.
So we have a second name and one would hardly call a process of getting rid of just two black players "gradual" - so there is an implication there must have been more of them than just those two.
miko
