1879 Brown University Baseball Team
William E. White is seated behind team manager.
The mulatto son of a slave, he played one game for the National League Providence Greys in 1879.
Source: The Clark and Addison Chronicle
Bud Fowler
Moses Fleetwood Walker
Frank Grant
Frank Grant
from a 21 September 1889 Cleveland Gazette portrait. Caption: ‘Grant had
played ably for Buffalo of the International League from 1886 through 1889,
until discouraged by persistent racial hostility and contract disputes.’
Source: Negro League
Baseball Players Association
Welday Walker Protests Exclusion of African Americans from Ohio State League
(March, 1888)
1887 Cuban Giants,
Back row: George Parago; Ben Holmes; Shep Trusty; Arthur Thomas; George
Williams; Miller. Front row: William T. Whyte; Clarence Williams; Abe
Harrison; S. K Govern, manager, Ben Boyd; Jack Frye; Frank Allen.
Photo Credit-National Baseball Library & Archive
Source: Negro League Baseball Players Association
Page Fence Giants, 1890s
"Another Field of American Industry Invaded by the
Chinese"
From Harper's Weekly: Harper's Weekly, Vol. 27, 1883