Clipping:Fleet Walker meets the color line in Louisville

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Date Monday, August 22, 1881
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[Cleveland White Stockings vs. Louisville Eclipse 8/21/1881] Quite a row was created at the base ball match to-day at Eclipse Park when it was discovered that Walker, of the Cleveland White Stockings, was a mulatto. The rich blood of the chivalrous Eclipse club couldn't brook the imputation of playing against a nine with him in it. A private policeman named Chas. Fuller, urged on by the Eclipse nine, was in the act of expelling Walker from the ground when the sentiment of the crowd in his favor became so manifest as to deter him, and Walker was permitted to remain as a spectator of a game wherein he was to have been a participant.

Source Cleveland Gazette
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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
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