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 DeLucia (1964)
Evan Longoria (1985)
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 DeLucia (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. I keep thinking that Bud Daley was a Twin, but
apparently I get him confused in my mind with Bill Dailey.
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