... , he could see the future. And the future he saw involved too many people without enough money to adequately support the Dodgers. " (Sullivan 111). From both O'Malley's willingness to sign Jackie Robinson, and this interview from Bavasi it is clear that O'Malley was far from a racist. His decision to move did not seem to be at all motivated by the changing racial ... legal counsel to the Dodgers, is looked back on as one of the defining moments in the history of professional sports. On April 15, 1947 Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color barrier playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers. A cultu...

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