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Jackie Robinson
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The state of the black manager in Major League Baseball would disgust Jackie Robinson
We examined the numbers since Robinson called out the MLB in the 1972 World Series
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Jackie Robinson’s last stand: To see blacks break into the MLB managerial ranks
When Robinson’s integration of baseball is discussed, the other cause he brought attention to just nine days before he died is forgotten
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Joe Louis and Jackie Robinson’s Pittsburgh story
New book ‘Smoketown’ illuminates city’s impact on black history
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What Had Happened Was: 12/13/17
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An ill and unhappy Jackie Robinson turned on Nixon in 1968
That fall, the baseball hero finally came back to the World Series — to support Hubert Humphrey
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We can thank Jackie Robinson for coloring in the World Series and then the world
He helped open the door for black folks from Willie Mays to LeBron James, Martin Luther King Jr. to Barack Obama
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Jackie Robinson’s family tosses first pitch as Dodgers take Game 1 of World Series
Robinson’s widow, daughter and son return to Dodger Stadium on 45th anniversary of his death
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What Had Happened Was: 10/24/17
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When Jackie Robinson and Dan Bankhead became the first African-Americans to play in World Series
Seventy years later, the Dodgers are once again in the Fall Classic