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From: jam@dcl-cs.UUCP (John A. Mariani)
Newsgroups: net.games.trivia
Subject: Re: First Black Baseball Player
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Date: Tue, 12-Nov-85 12:38:18 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 12 12:38:18 1985
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das@ucla-cs.UUCP (David Smallberg) writes:
>evan@petfe.UUCP (Evan Marcus) writes:
>>Who was the first black ballplayer?  My history books and my instinct
>>tells me the obvious answer: Jackie Robinson.  
>>Why then does Trivial Pursuit say that it was some other guy?
>
>Because it WAS some other guy.  As I posted last year, Moses Fleetwood Walker
>was the first black major leaguer (for Toledo, I think), in the American
>Association.  
O.K. Here's my question.
Who was the first black Trivial Pursuit player? 8-)!
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