Football was all white. ... He was good enough that he earned a college scholarship to play baseball at Pasadena Junior College. ... Most recently, this topic has been debated in the National Football League. ... "According to the Black Coaches Association (BCA), ethnic minorities represent only 2.7% (15 of 547) of head coaches at all National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) institutions (not including those coaching at historically black colleges and universities), while ethnic minorities make up more than 50% of the student-athletes playing college football" (Graves, Jr. 1). ... A...

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Football players pound each other for about five months each year while playing one game per week. Basketball and baseball players play a much longer season then do football. ... The twenty-one year old phenom who did not even go to college signed that contract after he turned down a $103 million offer over six years (Infotrac). ... Ticket prices have almost doubled for professional football games in the last ten years. ... For example, in the most popular incident of them all, in 1994, the outstanding football player O.J. ...

• Word Count: 1968
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Not long after the family moved to Pasadena, California Robinson's mother enrolled him into Pasadena Junior College. At Pasadena Junior College Robinson set a National Junior College record in the long jump of 25' 6 ½- (Ringer 22). After only one year at Pasadena Junior College Robinson received an athletic scholarship to UCLA (23). ... Robinson was a standout in football, baseball, basketball and track (26). After three years of college Robinson left college to work to support his mother (29). ...

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Jackie Robinson was born Jack Roosevelt Robinson on January 31, 1919. He was the youngest of five children. His father, Jerry abandoned the family and ran off to Florida. Jackie's mother Mallie was left to raise her five children alone. In the Spring of 1920 a year after Jerry left, Mallie moved ...

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Many of the high school and college players today choose jersey numbers of their favorite players, train like them and even mimic their style in hopes of being just like them one day. ... In an article on MidlandDailyNews.com, sports-writer Chris Stevens is quoted as saying "Pro athletes, especially in sports such as hockey and football, take a tremendous amount of physical punishment, and their bodies are banged up and bruised for much of the season. ... As a young African-American male we mainly flocked to sports such as basketball and football but suddenly baseball was an attractive sp...

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The thoughts of college athletic scholarships and pro contracts make the stakes higher (R.Wolff "Let's" 1). ... Under Nicol's coaching, Yorktown became one of the nation's elite lacrosse programs and sent tons of athletes to play in college. ... She claimed that her chances for a college scholarship were ruined because the pitching technique is an illegal motion. ... Deion Sanders, football and baseball professional, was an all-state basketball player in high school. ...

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While attending there he won letters in football, baseball, basketball, and track. ... Even today the Jackie Robinson Foundation continues to fight for human dignity and brotherhood by supporting college-bound minorities and poor people seeking to develop their potential. ...

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Racial Integration American history cannot be studied without focusing on the civil rights movement in the 1900's. Furthermore, we cannot discuss the civil rights movement without covering the integration of African Americans in baseball. When Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier it resemble...

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As stated in the Dictionary of Sports Quotations, by one of Sports Illustrated's writers in 1968, "Sports has increased the opportunity of the Negro, and other minorities, to go to college" (9). These disadvantaged children, look at the status of these icons, and think to themselves that by playing basketball or football, etc., they could also be there in years to come. ...

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