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Jackie Robinson: Major League Baseball
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Jack Roosevelt Robinson was the baseball player who broke the color line in organized baseball in 1947. The significance of this event in U.S. history is such that every major league baseball team has retired his number, 42.
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When Branch Rickey, the Brooklyn Dodgers' general manager, signed Robinson to a contract there was much controversy. In 1947 when Robinson ran out on a major league baseball field there was even more controversy.
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Robinson made his final public appearance on October 14, 1972, before Game 2 of the World Series. He used this chance to express his wish for a black manager to be hired by a Major League Baseball team.[31]
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Now that a black man had taken the field and upended racist expectations, white fans and players could no longer pretend that the pre-Jackie Robinson status quo had the mandate of heaven. It no longer made sense to deny Major League Baseball a much-needed infusion of Negro League talent.
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A Major League Baseball player on Sunday would have had to be in an isolation booth to be unaware of Robinson's legacy. Major leaguers across the country wore his No. 42. The Padres-Dodgers game was nationally televised. Throughout the day, television and radio outlets gave Jackie Robinson Day lengthy treatment.
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Major League Baseball (MLB) will celebrate the 60th Anniversary of Jackie Robinson’s entry into the major leagues, on April 15, 2007, which ended the prohibition of integration of African American players. However, it is arguable how much MLB has built upon his symbolic legacy, as civil rights hero, since it enjoyed complete integration in 1959.
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