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Article: Jack Roosevelt Robinson.(baseball player)(Brief Article)
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- February 1, 2000
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Baseball's First Black Superstar
The tall, handsome man stood at bat on a chilly April afternoon in 1947. His new uniform--Dodgers 42--shimmered against his coffee-colored skin. A nation held its breath.
At Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, New York, 26,623 fans watched the home team play the Boston Braves. Millions of Americans listened to the game on the radio. And the few Americans with televisions watched on their black-and-white sets. This was the first time in organized baseball that a black man took the field to play with and against white players.
Jack Roosevelt Robinson had the nerve to want to play major-league baseball. In those days, if a ...