# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/moses-fleetwood-walker
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:12:45.694Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/moses-fleetwood-walker"
name: "Moses Fleetwood Walker"
slug: "moses-fleetwood-walker"
description: "Moses Fleetwood Walker, sometimes nicknamed Fleet Walker, was an American professional baseball catcher credited with being the first black man to play major league baseball. A native of Mount Pleasant, Ohio, and a star athlete at Oberlin College as well as the University of Michigan, Walker played for semi-professional and minor league baseball clubs before joining the Toledo Blue Stockings of the American Association (AA) for the 1884 season."
tagline: "African-American baseball player and author"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Moses_Fleetwood_Walker.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1856-10-07"
deathDate: "1924-05-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.35
  momentum:             15
  historical:           6.274381333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B2%D8%B3_%D9%81%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%B9_%D9%88%D9%88%DA%88_%D9%88%D8%A7%DA%A9%D8%B1"
    title: "موزس فلیٹ ووڈ واکر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%89_%D9%88%D9%88%D9%83%D8%B1"
    title: "موسى ووكر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%89_%D9%88%D9%88%D9%83%D8%B1"
    title: "موسى ووكر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_Fleetwood_Walker"
    title: "Moses Fleetwood Walker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_Fleetwood_Walker"
    title: "Moses Fleetwood Walker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A2%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BC%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC"
    title: "モーゼス・フリート・ウォーカー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_Fleetwood_Walker"
    title: "Moses Fleetwood Walker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1252979"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump