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ramramI'll try to start this out with a few early inter-racial team images that I've picked up lately. The first is the 1885 over-sized cabinet with the third earliest colored player in professional baseball, Jack Frye. This image was owned by Frye and given to his brother. It shows him with his Lock Haven (PA) BBC team mates. The next image is a cabinet card of the 1894 Findlay, Ohio team featuring the first colored professional player and first colored major leaguer, Bud Fowler (on the right). The other colored player shown is Grant "Home Run" Johnson. The last image is a RPPC of the 1907 Manitowoc team featuring another early black star, George Wilson. The person that purchased and mailed this post card in 1907 has penned a note at the side of the photo that is typical of that racially insensitive period; "How you like these? The chocolate chip beats them all. July 3/07".
