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Toledo Blue Stockings
The
Toledo Blue Stockings
formed as a
minor league baseball
team in
Toledo, Ohio
in 1883. They won the
Northwestern League
championship in 1883. Their home ballpark was
League Park
. The following year, they joined the
major league
American Association
. That year, they finished 8th with a 46-58 record. The team returned to the minors the next year and disbanded after the
1885
season. Historically, the team is best known for being the only major league team with black players (
Moses Fleetwood Walker
and his brother,
Welday Walker
) prior to
Jackie Robinson
's appearance with the
Brooklyn Dodgers
in
1947
.
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