Robert Taylor Walker (born August 20, 1914, date of death unknown) was an American baseball

pitcher In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throws ("Pitch (baseball), pitches") the Baseball (ball), baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of out (baseball), retiring a batter (baseball), batter, ...

in the

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. He played with the

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in 1943 and the

Homestead Grays The Homestead Grays (also known as Washington Grays or Washington Homestead Grays) were a professional baseball team that played in the Negro league baseball, Negro leagues in the United States. The team was formed in 1912 in sports, 1912 by Cum ...

from 1945 to 1949. Walker was the winning pitcher in the last

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game ever played. He won his Game 5 matchup for the Grays with a 10-6 decision that was played on October 5, 1948; he pitched the first nine innings before being relieved for

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in the tenth inning, where the Grays scored four runs off Bill Greason to clinch the team's third World Series title in five years. Walker played with the team for the following year.

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