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Moses Fleetwood Walker was the first black American to play baseball in a major league. He achieved college baseball stardom at Oberlin College in the 1880s. Teammates as well as opponents harassed him, Cap Anson, the Chicago White Stockings star, is blamed for driving Walker and the few other blacks in the major leagues out of the game, but he could not have done so alone. A gifted athlete, inventor, civil rights activist, author, and entrepr...

David W. Zang is a professor in the Department of Kinesiology at Towson University. He is the author of Fleet Walker's Divided Heart: The Life of Baseball's First Black Major Leaguer and Sports Wars: Athletes in the Age of Aquarius.

David W. Zang is a professor in the Department of Kinesiology at Towson University. He is the author of Fleet Walker's Divided Heart: The Life of Baseball's First Black Major Leaguer and Sports Wars: Athletes in the Age of Aquarius.

Zang (sport studies, Towson University) reads the history of the 1960s through the lens of organized and professional sports and vice versa. He describes sports as a representative of the status quo, and details criticisms made against both its individual abuses and the values it represented. Particular attention is given to the critiques mounted b