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Bud Fowler Deserves His Own Thread

kcmets Dec 06 2021 10:15 AM

He Was a Black Star 60 Years Before Jackie. Now He's a Hall of Famer. Elected by the Hall's Early Days committee, Bud Fowler was a pioneer who played organized professional baseball against white players as early as 1878. -- New York Times 12/06/2021

kcmets Dec 06 2021 03:15 PM Re: Bud Fowler Deserves His Own Thread

SABR Baseball Biography Project - Bud Fowler - By Brian McKenna

G-Fafif Dec 06 2021 07:09 PM Re: Bud Fowler Deserves His Own Thread

Thank you for this thread and posting the SABR link. Fowler's is a story I appreciate learning.

Edgy MD Dec 06 2021 08:40 PM Re: Bud Fowler Deserves His Own Thread

I've only read part of it. Salute to McKenna who always provides SABR with deeply researched stories.

MFS62 Dec 07 2021 07:16 AM Re: Bud Fowler Deserves His Own Thread

"Only the Ball Was White", Robert W. Peterson's history of the Negro Leagues devotes a few pages to Fowler. Here's an excerpt he quotes from The Sporting Life in 1885 when Fowler was 31 years old: December 30: Fowler, the crack colored second baseman, is still in Denver, Colo., disengaged. The poor fellow's skin is against him. With his splendid abilities he would long ago have been on some good club had his skin color been white instead of black. Those who know say there is no better second baseman in the country; he is besides a good batter and fine base-runner. Later