‘The League’ Review: A Crucial Baseball Legacy

‘The League’ Review: A Crucial Baseball Legacy

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If you thought that Jackie Robinson was the first Black player in professional baseball, “The League” would like to offer a correction. Moses Fleetwood Walker became a catcher for the Toledo Blue Stockings in 1884, before organized baseball was segregated and more than 60 years before Robinson…

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