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- Jackie Robinson and the Struggle of Becoming the First Black Player in Major League Baseball. Jackie Robinson, seen above in 1954, was the first African-American player in Major League Baseball. When he broke the color barrier in 1947, he faced harsh treatment from his own teammates, as well as players on opposing teams.
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First Black NFL Draftee George Taliaferro Reunites With High School Rival And in 1949, he became the first black player drafted by an NFL club, although a handful of other African-Americans played in the league before him. Sometimes called the Jackie Robinson of the NFL, he went on to play for New York, Dallas, Baltimore and Philadelphia.
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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, First Black in Major Leagues, Dies Jackie Robinson, First Black in Major Leagues, Dies by dave anderson Jackie Robinson, who made history in 1947 by becoming the first black baseball player in the major leagues, suffered a heart attack in his home in Stamford, Conn., yesterday morning and died at Stamford Hospital at 7:10 A.M.
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- Jackie plays his first professional baseball game for the Montreal Royals at Roosevelt Stadium in Jersey City, New Jersey. Joe Cummiskey of the Jersey Journal wrote: Jackie Robinson, first Negro player ever to play in organized baseball, broke in yesterday with the Montreal Royals-and with a bang. He smashed out four hits in five times up-a homer with two men on base and three singles.
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Althea Gibson Althea Gibson was a World No. 1 American sportswoman who became the first African-American woman to be a competitor on the world tennis tour and the first to win a Grand Slam title in 1956. She is sometimes referred to as the Jackie Robinson of tennis  for breaking the color barrier.
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- On April 15, Major League Baseball celebrates Jackie Robinson Day. On that day in 1947, Robinson broke the baseball color line and became the first African American to play on a major sports team. Here are 42 facts to celebrate.
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- Jackie Robinson becomes the first black player to steal home plate as he gets his first of nineteen career home steals. Larry Doby is the first black player and pinch hitter in the American League: Cleveland Indians.
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Jackie Robinson breaks major league color barrier On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson becomes the first African-American in the major leagues when he plays his first game with the Brooklyn Dodgers. On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson becomes the first African-American in the major leagues when he plays his first game with the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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- Jackie Robinson, Brooklyn Dodgers, 1947, was the first black player to play major league baseball in the modern era. But it was a man named Moses Walker (b. 1856) who playe … d back in 1884. However, some say that William Edward White was the first. He was half white and half black, and played one game in 1879.
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Jackie Robinson For other people named Jackie Robinson, see Jackie Robinson (disambiguation). Jack Roosevelt Jackie Robinson (January 31, 1919 – October 24, 1972) was an American professional baseball second baseman who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball (MLB) in the modern era.
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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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The First Black Player in Major-League History But every Jackie Robinson Day, I think of William Edward White, who was in all likelihood actually the first African-American major leaguer. White attended Brown University. On June 21, 1879, he filled in for the big-league Providence Grays of the National League.
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- Jackie Robinson (I) (1919–1972) Jackie Robinson was the african-American who broke the color barrier in baseball for the Brooklyn Dodgers. He was elected to the baseball Hall of Fame on January 23, 1962. See full bio »
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Jackie Robinson breaks major league color barrier On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson becomes the first African-American in the major leagues when he plays his first game with the Brooklyn Dodgers. Jack Roosevelt Robinson was born into a family of sharecroppers on January 31, 1919, in Cairo, Georgia.
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- No, we didn't have black history programs in the schools back then. Though we did learn about people like George Washington Carver. And Jackie Robinson was important  he was the first black man to play on a Major League baseball field. I was 10 years old when that happened.
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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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- Copyright © UCLA Archive. Jackie Robinson — the player who broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier and the only athlete in UCLA history to letter in four sports (football, basketball, track and baseball) — has been posthumously awarded the Congressional Gold Medal.
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Reliving Jackie's '46 season “We all sensed that history was in the making, that the long ban against Negro players was about to come crashing down, setting up reverberations that would echo across a continent and perhaps around the world.”. Jackie Robinson on his first Minor League game at Jersey City on April 18, 1946.
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- In 1947 Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in baseball and was the first African American to play major league baseball. A member of the Brooklyn Dodgers, Robinson wa … s the first African American to break a record in the Negro league and was the best African American baseball player in history.
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Photo Galleries Breaking Barriers: The First African American Players for each MLB Team (18) When he made his Brooklyn Dodgers debut on April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson became the first African American to break the Major League Baseball color barrier. He won the Rookie of the Year Award that season, and went on to become the first black MVP in 1949.
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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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- Jackie Robinson is the first black player to sign a formal / major league contract: Montreal Royals. Jackie Robinson is the first black minor leaguer (International League) in a game: Royals versus the Jersey City Little Giants.
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Los Angeles Dodgers Althea Gibson: American Legend Name __________________. (1) In 1947, Jackie Robinson became the first African American to play. Major League baseball. His story is well known to most Americans and. rightly so. Many movies have been made and hundreds of books written. about Jackie Robinson’s life.
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Jackie Robinson Apart from his cultural impact, Robinson had an overall good baseball career. Over ten seasons, he played in six World Series and helped in the Dodgers' 1955 World Championship. He was selected for six consecutive All-Star Games from 1949 to 1954. Robinson received the first MLB Rookie of the Year Award in 1947. He also won the National League Most Valuable Player Award in 1949. He was the first black player to win this award. Robinson was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962.
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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.