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Who is Arthur Wharton? History's first Black professional footballer who leaps from the St. George's flag

Here at The Sporting News, we don't like to consider that anyone else was publishing anything worthwhile about sport in 1886. That was our time; the birth of the magazine that would become the 'Bible of Baseball', a fact that means we're the oldest sporting publication in the United States.

And so, with this article written to mark Black History Month, we must address an inconvenient truth. In 1886, the New York Tribune became the first publisher to produce a book printed entirely using the Linotype machine. The Tribune Book of Open-Air Sports documented all known outstanding achievements as recreational pastimes entered the realms of organised competition t

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