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Jackie Robinson
Nick Parris
Jackie Robinson was born in Cairo, Georgia in 1919 to a family of sharecroppers. He went to the University of California at Los Angeles. At UCLA he showed a great deal of athletic ability. He was the first student-athlete to win varsity letters in four sports-football, basketball, baseball and track.
In 1941 he left college to join the Army. He became a second lieutenant in his jou ....
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.... at games, and helped make the Dodgers a very competitive team in baseball.
Robinson retired after the 1956 season rather than get traded to another team. He finished his career with a .311 batting average. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962, the first black to receive the honor.
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