1884 Toledo Blue Stockings season - Wikipedia

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1884 Toledo Blue Stockings season - Wikipedia

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TIL that the first two African Americans to play Major League Baseball were brothers Fleet Walker and Weldy Walker, who played for the Toledo Blue Stockings in their 1884 season. Jackie Robinson

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