The best baseball player that ever lived is Jackie Robinson. This is because not only was Jackie an amazing baseball player, he also changed the path of baseball and many other sports. ... Although Jackie was an amazing baseball player it wasn't his athletic ability that changed the course of baseball forever. ... For the first time in history, black players were being openly defended. ... Jackie started a trend that altered the path for sports as well as society and that is why he is the best baseball player in history. ...

• Word Count: 1249
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• Grade Level: High School

Prejudice is one of the darkest chapter in American history and prejudice is also one of the darkest chapters in American sports history as well. There is only one number in all of major league baseball that is retired throughout the league. ... The number is 42, and it belongs to the first African-American to play Major League Baseball, Jackie Robinson. ... Today, some of the most significant records in all of baseball are held by African-Americans. ... The fact that this team was the only integrated football team, and that they were the only undefeated team, not to mention the only champ...

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• Grade Level: High School

For a man coming from a poor family of sharecroppers, his beginning, would help him become the first baseball player to break Major League Baseball's color barrier that segregated major league baseball for many decades. ... In 1947, an important time in history occurred. Jackie Robinson was drafted by the coach of the Brooklyn Dodger, a team part of white baseball, and helped integrate black and white baseball together. He broke the colour barrier in baseball by being the first African American to play in white baseball. ... Due to all of his great success in 1962, Jackie Robinson was...

• Word Count: 423
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Jackie Robinson and Branch Rickey are forever linked in American history. ... While Branch Rickey's motives are still unclear, history has proven that his "great experiment- to integrate baseball, ultimately had less to do with baseball and more to do with challenging deep seated attitudes about race. ... He entered the history books on April 15 as the Dodgers opened the 1947 season against the Boston Braves at Ebbets Field. ... In 1962, Jackie Robinson was voted to the Baseball's Hall of Fame at Cooperstown. ... That he conquered all of this is one of the most courageous stor...

• Word Count: 1150
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The year of 1947 was arguably the most pivotal in the history of major league baseball. Baseball historian William Marshall referred to it as the "season of fury," while Red Barber called it the "year all hell broke loose in baseball." ... Although Rickey's "great experiment" sparked protests from other players, it also paved the way for the integration of baseball and other sports.... By the time the controversy had settled, however, several myths about white southern baseball players had become part of baseball lore. ... Why has history singled out Dixie Walker as the embodiment of the ...

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• Grade Level: High School

He set many records in track, baseball, and football. ... He played track, baseball, basketball, and football. ... Branch Rickey was the baseball coach at Ohio Wesleyan. ... It was a crucial event in the history of the American rights moment, the importance of which went far beyond the insuler world of baseball(Dorinson 132). ... He changed the history of baseball and the rest of life. ...

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He became the first athlete in history at UCLA to get letters from four different sports in one year. ... In 1957, he retired from baseball. After living under racial prejudice his whole life he felt he had helped improve conditions for blacks in baseball. ... In 1962, he was named to baseball's Hall of Fame. ... Blacks played in pro baseball, pro football and pro basketball. ...

• Word Count: 486
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One of his accomplishments was entering the major leagues and is one of the most remarkable and inspiring accomplishments in sports history. ... Robinson was a standout in football, baseball, basketball and track (26). ... After leaving the Army, Robinson wanted to play his favorite sport, baseball. ... y for his baseball talent but the way he handled himself when criticized (James 99). ... With honor he accepted the challenge, and in 1946 entered "organized baseball- (128). ...

• Word Count: 1421
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School