Tag: baseball players of the 19th century

• Know Your History: Octavius Catto

  I’ll admit. I was not familiar with the story of Octavius Catto – black activist after the Civil War – until I came across his story in an unexpected place: MLB historian John Thorn’s terrific book Baseball in the Garden of Eden: The Secret History of the Early Game. Catto was very much a renaissance…

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  April 17, 2021

  History & Culture, Know Your History

  19th century abolitionists, baseball players of the 19th century, philadelphia