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Jackie Robinson
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Jackie Robinson
Jack Roosevelt
"
Jackie
"
Robinson
(January 31, 1919 – October 24, 1972) was an American
Major League Baseball
(MLB)
second baseman
who became the first
African American
to play in the major leagues in the modern era. Robinson broke the
baseball color line
when the
Brooklyn Dodgers
started him at first base on April 15, 1947. The Dodgers, by playing Robinson, ended
racial segregation
that had relegated
black players
to the
Negro leagues
since the 1880s. Robinson was inducted into the
Baseball Hall of Fame
in
1962
.
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