The first man to break the color barrier in Major League Baseball in the 20th century, Jackie Robinson is one of the most celebrated baseball players in history. ... After hid successful season in 1946 with the team's Farmclub he became the first African American major league baseball player since the 19th century. ... But before Jackie Robinson there was Moses Fleetwood Walker, he was the 1st African American major league baseball player to play baseball in the late 1800's. On April 15, 1947 Jackie Robinson became the 1st African American to play major league baseball....

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Since the very beginning when the Major League Baseball first began, in 1869, catchers were picked up for their defensive, not their offensive abilities. ... He placed him on the Hatillo Tigres, an amateur league team full of players about ten years older than him, long before Molina was eligible for the Major League Baseball draft. ... Louis Cardinals selected him in the fourth round of the 2000 Major League Baseball Draft. ... Because of his free-swinging tendency, he has a walk rate (7.1%) below the Major League average (8.4%). ... I got these stats from http://baseball.about.com/od/major...

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Aluminum bats should be outlawed in college and should never be allowed in the Major Leagues for the protection of the players and the game. ... Baseball players from the youngest leagues up through college use aluminum bats. ... For major leagues, bats must be made of wood and cannot be longer than fourty two inches or wider than two and three fourths inches. ... Because of these injuries the league is going to switch to wooden bats (Reiss 11). ... The Jayhawk League and the Cape Cod League (summer leagues for college players), use only wood bats (Performance 18). ...

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When Williams graduated high school, he signed with the San Diego Padres of the Pacific Coast League. ... In his seven seasons that decade, he won four home-run titles; four batting crowns and six times led the American League in runs batted in. ... It is unusual for a young player, with only two years experience in organized baseball, to come up on his third season and set a major league afire with his aggressive ability, but really this is not difficult to understand at all. ... Ted Williams is our greatest living expert on how to hit a baseball, the last baseball player to hit .400 in the...

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