Moses Fleetwood Walker
OCTOBER 7, 1857 – May 11, 1924
Moses Fleetwood Walker’s promising baseball one of the unknown careers of the great African American players. Prior to the Negro Leagues who began to play in the early twentieth century. Walker was a gifted defensive catcher and offensive player, but his career would be cut short by the radical racism. He was well educated,
Moses Fleetwood Walker was born in Mt. Pleasant, Ohio on October 7, 1857. His parents were biracial.
Fleet Walker published a book entitled Our Home Colony, which called for black emigration back to Africa as the only alternative to racial prejudice. His publishing career also included a newspaper, The Equator.
Towards the end of his life. He truly battled alcoholism, and was tried and acquitted on charges of second-degree murder following an attack by a convicted alcohol, burglar, whom he had killed with a knife in self-defense. He died on May 11, 1924, in Cleveland at age 67.