Cleburne Eagles Special Events

Posted November 18, 2017


 Cinco De mayo Baseball

"The Mel Almada Baseball Celebration"

The Cleburne Eagles Academy Baseball team will celebrate the historic day by conducting a free youth clinic, and seminar that will feature information and conversation on opportunities within the industry of minor league baseball away from the field, but also how to develop the opportunity as a young player into baseball.

And a tournament style series of games from the youth level up to the featured game.

Mel Almada aka Baldomero Melo Almada Quiroz aka Baldomero Melo (Quiros)

A native of Huatabampo, Sonora, Mexico, Almada made history by becoming the first Mexican baseball player to reach major league status with the Boston Red Sox in 1933.

 

Juneteenth Classic

Thise baseball event celebrates the history of the Cleburne Eagles of past, by featuring a seminar and youth baseball clinic.

It also celebrates the first black players to take part in a major league game Moses Fleetwood Walker, the Eagles will also feature local historic figure Jebe Brazzle the most famous prominate Eagles player

The Syracuse Stars baseball team posed for a team portrait in 1889,in that photo in the far right back row stands Moses Fleetwood Walker he played one season in 1884 63 years before Jackie Robinson, there was also one fill in game in 1879 of which William Edward White played.

Walker played a season but suffered injuries and insults he played catcher in a time that he had no glove and batted .263 in 42 games all while having to sleep on park benches when denied entrance to some hotels in the south.

Cap Anson rallied support to segregate the game in 1887 the International league managers agreed to vote not to sign any black players and the color lines were drawn.

 



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