Word: walkerism
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...Although two black brothers from Ohio, Moses "Fleet" Walker and Welday Walker, played briefly for Toledo of the then major American Association in 1884, blacks were subsequently barred from playing big-league ball for the next 63 years. Branch Rickey, the most eloquent of baseball men, brought Jackie Robinson to the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. Rickey and the Dodgers' captain, Pee Wee Reese, lent magnificent support to Robinson, the pioneer. Others did not. Several Dodgers demanded to be traded, rather than play on a fine team beside a black...
...Last year, over a third of the Eastern team was made up of seniors,” Walker said. “So this year it definitely feels like a younger team overall, and I feel like there are a lot of guys who are going to have the opportunity to prove things to the team and to themselves, the opportunity to make an impact to the program...
...fact that dissent is being suppressed anywhere means that it could happen in your hometown,” said Wesleyan junior Abe J. Walker, one of the arrested students...
...Walker was arrested and charged with inciting a riot, interference with a police officer and disorderly conduct. He said he felt the police acted unjustly...
...They were trying to make it out like we were being violent, and what really happened was that violent officers attacked peaceful protesters,” Walker said. “What they did was completely unexpected...