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Title: Jackie Robinson


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Jackie Robinson
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  • 1919 born in Cairo, Georgia
  • One of five children
  • Attended Pasadena Junior College
  • At UCLA, lettered in four sports baseball,
    basketball, football and track
  • In 1941, Jackie played professional football for
    Los Angeles Bulldogs to help support his mother.

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  • 1942 entered army for World War II, stationed at
    Fort Riley, Kansas
  • Honorable discharge from Army in 1943
  • 1945, Jackie played one season for a Negro
    Baseball League.
  • Joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947 National
    League Rookie of the Year (12 homers, 29 steals)
  • 1949 National League Most Valuable Player

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  • Married Rachel Isum in 1946
  • In 1956 ended his career as a Brooklyn Dodger.
  • First black person to be elected to the Baseball
    Hall of Fame (1962)

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  • Jackie Robinson died in 1972
  • In 1997 the World celebrated the 50th Anniversary
    of Jackies breaking Major League Baseballs
    color barrier

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  • On August 2, 1982, the U.S. Postal Service
    released a 20-cent stamp commemorating baseball
    great Jackie Robinson as the fifth in the annual
    Black Heritage series of stamps. First day of
    issue ceremonies were held at the Major League
    Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y.
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