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JulieNo. 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.