... official team. There are many factors of people who have contributed the desegregation of Baseball, which in 1945 ended when the first black player Jackie Robinson was signed to The Brooklyn Dodgers. Baseball is an all-American past time sport but what some don't know is when baseball first was ... that the black press put into trying to get the attention of the white club owners it finally paid off. On October 23, 1946 Jackie Robinson signed a contract, along with several other African American players to play for the Brooklyn Dodgers in the upcoming spring season of 1947. During ... en...

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The Story That Told a Greater One Woodstock immediately comes to mind; Jackie Robinson as the first African American Major League Baseball player for the Brooklyn Dodgers; Gandhi. All throughout history, there have been times in which a moment or event nearly summed up a generation: ... ...

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