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| View Poll Results: Most Influential African American Baseball Figure Besides Jackie Robinson | |||
| Bud Fowler (First Black Professional Ballplayer) |
   
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0 | 0% |
| Moses Fleetwood Walker (First Black Major League Ballplayer) |
  
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11 | 6.71% |
| Sol White (History of Colored Baseball) |
  
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2 | 1.22% |
| Rube Foster (Founder of Negro National League) |
  
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63 | 38.41% |
| Other (Please identify) |
  
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88 | 53.66% |
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10-24-2014, 10:17 AM
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The black sports writers
Sam Lacy, Wendell Smith, Frank A. Young, Joe Bostic, Chester L. Washington, W. Rollo Wilson, Dan Burley, Ed Harris, A.S. "Doc" Young and Romeo Dougherty
The players may have been performing the feats but without these guys no one hears about them. They also were very active in trying to set up tryouts and get mainstream support. Along the same lines, but not black, Shirley Povich (yes Maury's dad) wrote some incredible editorials about integration in the 1930 and 40's 
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