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In the Shadows- Baseball's Invisible Men

"In 1947, Jackie Robinson became the first black major leaguer since Moses Fleetwood Walker, a man driven from organized baseball sixty-seven years earlier. In the interregnum between these two came a multitude of elite black players, forced by legal proscription and de facto segregation to carve out a separate sphere of a sport."

Moses Fleetwood Walkers' biographer and professor at Towson University, David Zang, will discuss this time in baseball's history. This event is related to the Pride and Passion: The African-American Baseball Experience exhibit at Towson University that is running from February 24th- April 8th.

This event is for adults and will begin at 2pm.

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