Moses Walker

Moses Walker

Moses Walker was born in October 7, 1857 in Mount Pleasant in Ohio. Moses was the fifth of six children. His dad was a physician and his mother was a midwife. Oberlin College excepted Moses in fall 1878. In 1881 he played in all 5 baseball games with the baseball team at Oberlin. Moses was an American professional baseball catcher he is most remembered as being the first black man to play in a major baseball league. Moses played in a minor league until 1889. His brother Weldy became the second African American athlete to play in a major baseball league. Half way through 1883 left his studies all the way in Michigan and was able to receive his first ever professional baseball contract with William Voltz he was the manager  of a major league Toledo Blue Stockings a Northwestern league team. Unfortunately Moses Fleetwood Walker passed at his Cleveland home on May 11 1924 due to Lobar Pneumonia having to do with his lungs. If there is to little oxygen in your blood your body cells can’t work properly anymore and have a very high chance of death.