Original photo of Moses Fleetwood Walker with the U. of Michigan Varsity Baseball Team

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Posted By: Julie

No. 2039: it doesn't look like that! All that phoney matting comes right off; the mount is stained, torn (on the top layer), with fractions written on it in ink. the lower right corner is much rounded.
In other words, it looks GLORIOUS!

"Fleet" Walker was the first black man to play Major league baseball in America--with the Toledo Blue Stockings; he was a fine catcher. His brother, Welldy, also played a few games with them. Walker played two years--one before Toledo was awarded AA status.Then, Jim Crow started to close in (as if it had not already!) and Fleet was banished to the International League, where he played until Cap Anson said his team would not appear in exhibition if there were a black catcher (and pitcher--George Stovey won 33 games
for Newark that year). The 8 or 9 black men who had gathered in the International League dispersed, began doing--other things. That was in 1887.
Fleet became more and more disillilusioned with integration, and when he wrote a book in 1908, he said he felt that the only solution to the race problems in America was for the Negroes to separate themselves completely from the white man. He had received little encouragement since the days when he started college at Oberlin and founded the Varsity Baseball team there.

No more peck of salt for me,
No more, no more.
No more peck of salt for me:
Many thousand gone.

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Posted By: Julie

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Posted By: Hankron

Congradulations on your winning, Julie. Despite its condition, original playing days Fleetwood Walker photos are few and far between. I'm confident that more than a few museums would enjoy owning it.

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Posted By: Ryan Christoff

This photo sold on ebay about a year ago. I forget who won it, but I saved the image from the listing. Here is the pic:





-Ryan

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Posted By: Julie

are a little less washed-out--but it's the same picture. See where the photo begins to blur over on the right toward the bottom? Of course, I have the beautiful mount, too! If I have your e-mail, I'll send you a copy.


Julie

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Posted By: Ben

Julie's 1882 Michigan Team Photo Featuring Moses Fleetwood Walker (still matted)

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Posted By: Julie

Go to Scott's "Fleetwood Walker Cabinet--for Julie" and click on Scott's website.

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Posted By: Ben

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Posted By: Julie

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