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Synopsis
Who was the first African American major league baseball
player? If your answer is Jackie Robinson, think again. It
was Fleetwood Walker (7 Oct. 1857-11 May 1924).
"Fleet" as he was popularly known, began his professional
baseball career in 1883 with the Toledo Blue Stockings of
the Northwestern League. In 1884, when the league champions
joined the major league American Association, Walker became
the first black major leaguer in history. Fleet’s Divided
Heart is a story of the social obstacles, fictitious opinions
common among race theorists in 19th century America and the
personal impact it had on this truly talented athlete, inventor,
entrepreneur, and entertainer.
Title: Fleet Walker's Divided Heart: the life
of baseball's first black major leaguer
Media Type: CD; set of 7 CD's
Listen:
Introduction
Price: $39.95
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RAVE REVIEWS
His biography tells us something about the growth of
intercollegiate sports, about the personal successes and traumas
of "double consciousness," in Du Bois's term, but especially
about the closing of the window of racial tolerance that had
been partially open for a few years after 1865. |
