ClimbingSky

Why Baseball, Books, and the Grateful Dead matter


Systemic Racism

  • Learning from History

    On August 21st, 1881, The Eclipse club refused to play against the Chicago Whites in Louisville because of a black player named Fleet Walker on the Chicago team. Walker would go on to play for the Toledo Blue Stockings in the American Association in 1884 and is generally regarded as the first black player in major league baseball. I sometimes suspect that the angry MAGA Read more