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A Walnut Hills baseball story: Small boys, a Championship, and a little PR

In the 1910s Gilbert Avenue became an auto dealer’s row. In 1914 the 31-year-old financier Howard W. Fenker went to work for the White Motorcar Continue Reading

Frank Robinson, the Color Line in Baseball, and the Manse Hotel

Click here to see more information about Black Baseball in Walnut Hills Frank Robinson, an African American man, signed with the Cincinnati Reds organization in Continue Reading

Baseball in Walnut Hills: Manggrum’s Drug Store, the Recreation Commission, and Black Sports

Click here to see more information about Black Baseball in Walnut Hills From the 1870s for at least a century, baseball was the national pastime. Continue Reading

Black Baseball in Walnut Hills

Our neighborhood has a rich baseball history, most of it highlighting our African-American residents. In October, 2020, when the pandemic prevented us from going to Continue Reading

Baseball Venues in Walnut Hills

Click here to see more information about Black Baseball in Walnut Hills The Deer Creek Commons, built over a large culvert down the valley between Continue Reading

Baseball Venues: Walnut Hills Ashland Park

Click here to see more information about Black Baseball in Walnut Hills The parks plans of the progressive era not only resulted in the construction Continue Reading

DeHart Hubbard and Baseball in Cincinnati

Click here to see more information about Black Baseball in Walnut Hills William DeHart Hubbard was born in Walnut Hills in 1903, named after the Continue Reading

Andrew J. DeHart: Education and Sports at Frederick Douglass School

Click here to see more information about Black Baseball in Walnut Hills Andrew J. DeHart was born in Mississippi in 1855. His early biography is Continue Reading

Peter Clark: the Father of Black Baseball in Cincinnati

Click here to see more information about Black Baseball in Walnut Hills Peter Humphries Clark was the Father of Black Baseball in Cincinnati. He is Continue Reading

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