| Hi, I am
Louis Francis Sockalexis. I was born on Indian Island
October 24,1871. I was the Grand Chief of the Bear Clan.
I could throw a baseball over 600 feet across the Penobscot River at the
Bangor Race Track. I could pitch a ball across the entire oval.
I went to St. Mary’s in Van Buren first. In 1884-85 I was
at Holy Cross in Worcester. MA. In 1896 I went to Notre Dame in
South Bend, Indiana. I was the first American Indian to play
professional baseball on a major league team. I was an outfielder
for the National League Cleveland Spiders. By
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