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- New York Yankees pitcher Mariano Rivera, who is retiring after the 2013 season, will be the last active Major League player to wear Robinson's number -- 42 -- which MLB retired in 1997.
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Jackie Robinson Jackie Robinson was the first and only player whose uniform number — 42 — was retired by Major League Baseball (April 15, 1997) making it unwearable on every team present & in the future.
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Jackie Robinson Jackie Robinson's first year in professional ball was 1946 when he played for the Montreal Royals, the Brooklyn Dodgers Triple-A minor league team. He played one year for Mont…real and then played for the Dodgers between 1947-1956. He retired after the 1956 season.
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Jackie Robinson In 1962 Robinson was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame. He was inducted along with former Cleveland pitching great Bob Feller, who had once predicted that Jackie's football shoulders would keep him from hitting big-league pitching.
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- Lied (. [liːt] ; plural Lieder [ˈliːdɐ] ; German for song) originally denoted in classical music the setting of Romantic German poems to music, especially during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.or German-speakers, the term Lied has a long history ranging from 12th-century troubadour songs (Minnesang) via folk songs (Volkslieder) and church hymns (Kirchenlieder) to 20th-century workers' songs (Arbeiterlieder) or protest songs (Kabarettlieder, Protestlieder).
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Jackie Robinson Jackie Robinson Parkway also runs through the cemetery. After Robinson's death, his widow founded the Jackie Robinson Foundation, of which she remains an officer as of 2010. On April 15, 2008, she announced that in 2010 the foundation will be opening a museum about Jackie in Lower Manhattan.
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- Jackie Robinson breaks color barrier. On this day in 1947, Jackie Robinson, age 28, becomes the first African-American player in Major League Baseball when he steps onto Ebbets Field in Brooklyn to compete for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Robinson broke the color barrier in a sport that had been segregated for more than 50 years.
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Jackie Robinson Facts In 1946 Jackie Robinson married Rachel Islum. They had three children together. Jackie Robinson played for the Montreal Royals in Minor League Baseball in 1946. In 1947, on April 15th, Jackie Robinson became the first African-American to play in the Major Leagues. He played for the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, New York.
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Sandy Koufax retires Sandy Koufax retires. On November 18, 1966, Sandy Koufax, the ace pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers, retires from baseball. He was just 30 years old, and he was retiring after a great season–he’d led the Dodgers to a National League pennant and won his third Cy Young award.
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About this Collection 2007 marks the 60th anniversary of Jackie Robinson's rookie season for the Brooklyn Dodgers. When he stepped onto Ebbets field on April 15th, 1947, Robinson became the first African American in the twentieth century to play baseball in the major leagues -- breaking the color line, a segregation practice dating to the nineteenth century.
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Billy Cox (baseball) Cox, however, would not report to his new team, the Cleveland Indians, reigning American League champions. Even after a meeting with Indians' manager Al Lopez, Cox resolved to retire and did so on June 17. After Cox retired, the Orioles never settled on a starting third baseman until Brooks Robinson won the job in 1957.
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Obituary: Charlie Sifford broke PGA Tour color barrier In November, he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, putting him on par with Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer. In his autobiography, “Just Let Me Play,” Sifford told of meeting Jackie Robinson in California about the time Robinson was trying to break baseball’s color barrier. “He asked me if I was a quitter,” Sifford wrote.
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- In 1945, Robinson signed a contract to play for the Kansas City Monarchs. He was paid $400 a month (about $5100 today) to play shortstop and eventually was placed in the Negro League All-Star Game that year. 12. Robinson married Rachel Islum —who he had met in 1941 during his senior year at UCLA—in 1946.
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- Jackie Robinson made it to the Hall of Fame in the year 1962 and he was actually the first African-American to be on the Baseball Hall of Fame. His baseball cards are still in demand among baseball card collectors’ and people who just like to buy valuable baseball cards.
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What position did Jackie Robinson play for the dodgers? Jackie Robinson debuted at first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers, playing 151 games at the position in 1947. Throughout his career, he mainly played second base, but he also pla…yed third base and the outfield. He won his MVP award at second base in 1949. Craig Esquire.
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- The nation, led by President Bill Clinton, celebrates the 50th anniversary of Jackie Robinson's historic entry into baseball. Major League Baseball honors him during a nationally televised ceremony at Shea Stadium by retring his number 42 in perpetuity.
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Jackie Robinson Robinson finished the season having played in 151 games for the Dodgers, with a batting average of .297, an on-base percentage of .383, and a .427 slugging percentage. He had 175 hits (scoring 125 runs) including 31 doubles, 5 triples, and 12 home runs, driving in 48 runs for the year.
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Lou Brock Brock retired at the end of the season, having posted a .304 batting average in his last season at the age of 40. At the end of the season, he was named the National League Comeback Player of the Year —the first player to be so named in his final Major League season.
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- Jackie Robinson Baseball Cards have become extremely valuable over the years. Jackie Robinson made Baseball history when he became the first black player to break the color barrier in 1947 and was one of the game’s all-time great players.
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Jackie Robinson Robinson endured that discrimination and rose above it, going on to win Rookie of the Year in 1947 as well as the National League MVP Award in 1949. 1  Hailed as a civil rights pioneer, Robinson was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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Jackie Robinson Jackie Robinson. 1  Occupation: Baseball Player. 2  Born: January 31, 1919 in Cairo, Georgia. 3  Died: October 24, 1972 in Stamford, Connecticut. 4  Best known for: The first African-American to play Major League Baseball.
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Jackie Robinson Jackie Robinson. Jackie Robinson is perhaps the most historically significant baseball player ever, ranking with Babe Ruth in terms of his impact on the national pastime. Ruth changed the way baseball was played; Jackie Robinson changed the way Americans thought. When Robinson took the field for the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947, more than sixty years of racial segregation in major-league baseball came to an end.
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Jackie Robinson Jackie Robinson. Jack Roosevelt Jackie Robinson (January 31, 1919 – October 24, 1972) was the first African-American Major League Baseball (MLB) player of modern times. Robinson broke the baseball color barrier when he debuted with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. He was the first black man to openly play in the major leagues since the 1880s.
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- Lead Story. Jackie Robinson breaks color barrier. On this day in 1947, Jackie Robinson, age 28, becomes the first African-American player in Major League Baseball when he steps onto Ebbets Field in Brooklyn to compete for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Robinson broke the color barrier in a sport that had been segregated for more than 50 years.
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Jackie Robinson Biography Jackie Robinson became the first black player in the major leagues in 1947, signing with the Brooklyn Dodgers. He was named Rookie of the Year in 1947, National League MVP in 1949 and a World Series champ in 1955.
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Remembering Jackie Celebrate Jackie Robinson's legacy at the Hall of Fame. Honor the courage and legacy of Jackie Robinson at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum April 13-15. Each year we tell the story of how Robinson broke the modern Major League Baseball color barrier. The baseball world pauses on April 15 to celebrate Jackie Robinson Day on the anniversary of his big league debut.