John W. 'Bud' Fowler was one of the first professional black baseball players when in 1872 he joined a white team in New Castle, Pennsylvania. Jackson played for the team for two and half decades; he played in parts of the country that Blacks were not permitted to play. Fowler was born in Fort Plain, […]
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