October 7

Fleet Walker (1856)

Brickyard Kennedy (1867)

Bill Walker (1903)

Chuck Klein (1904)

Frank Baumholtz (1918)

Grady Hatton (1922)

Bud Daley (1932)

Phil Ortega (1939)

Jose Cardenal (1943)

Rich De Lucia (1964)

Evan Longoria (1985)

Moses Fleetwood "Fleet" Walker is credited as the first African-American to play major league baseball.  A catcher, he appeared in forty-two games for the Toledo Blue Stockings of the American Association in 1884, until rival owners and players demanded that he be removed from the roster.  In those forty-two games, he batted .263/.325/.316.

There do not appear to be any players with connections to the Twins born on this day.