[net.sport.baseball] Fleet Walker

cpf@lasspvax.UUCP (Courtenay Footman) (11/12/85)

FLEET WALKER			Walker, Moses Fleetwood	     BL TR  6'  165 lbs
					Brother of Welday Walker
					B. Oct 7,1857, Mt. Pleasent, Ohio
					D. May 11,1924 Steubenville, Ohio
								  P/H
	       G   AB  H  2B 3B HR HR%   R RBI BB SO SB  BA   SA  AB H G by POS 
1884 Tol  AA  42  142 40   2  3  0 0.0  23      8       .263 .316  0 0 C-41,OF-1

WELDAY WALKER			Walker, Welday Wilberforce
					Brother of Fleet Walker
					B. July 27,1860, Steubenville, Ohio
					D. Nov 23,1937,  Steubenville, Ohio

1884 Tol  AA   5   18  4   1  0  0 0.0   1      0       .222 .278  0 0 OF-5

(From "The Baseball Encyclopedia", 6th ed, (Macmillon Publishing Co, 1985))
I think this beats Jackie Robinson by a few years!
(Blank stats are unavailable, not zero.)

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