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I keep track of guys born or buried here in Cambridge. The Boston popularity of versatile, multi-sport Harvard star William Clarence Matthews (1905) started rumors a pro team would sign him to break MLB's color line, something that instead took another 40 years. It's known that Matthews _did_ play for some independent league baseball teams in New England, a modest color line break, if less remembered today. He's buried in Cambridge Cemetery, not far from HOFers Tim Keefe, John Clarkson, and other former players from the Clarkson family. I drafted this marker in Cambridge's city style that is wending its way through the municipal consideration process. (No known prewar cards of Matthews exist; his modern cards are based on that same "standing with glove" photo.)