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Baseball Player On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson changed the landscape of professional sports by becoming the first African American Major League Baseball player of the modern era.
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Jack
Roosevelt Robinson was born in Cairo, Georgia in 1919
to a family of sharecroppers. His mother, Mallie Robinson,
single-handedly raised Jackie and her four other children.
They were the only black family on their block, and
the prejudice they encountered only strengthened their
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"Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life."
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