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| "There were the excepted death threats and the occasional attempts to bar Jackie." |
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about racist death threats |
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| "Jackie, you're on your own now. You've earned the right to be yourself" |
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After his life changing career |
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| "In 1972 Jackie published yet another autobiography, "I Never Had It Made. |
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Page 192
Book about his life as a baseball player |
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| "Racism is still widespread, as seen in the unwillingness of baseball to give managerial and administrative positions to blacks." |
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Effects on Racism |
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| "Even baseball was entangled in this civil was. Jackie stressed the unfinished buisness: the remaining pockets of segregation, epecially in lodging in some cities; the low salaries of black baseball stars; the fact that only outstanding blacks could make it;the lack of opportunity for commercial endorsements; and the absence of managerial and front-office jobs." |
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about how blacks were treated |
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| "Jackie believed in working through the system. That had been his experience. He had turned the other cheek, the had persisted, and the establishment has yielded." |
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Being the bigger man |
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| "On the next day, Tuesday, October 24, 1972, Jackie Robinson died." |
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When Jackie died |
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| "He turned a stumbling block into a stepping stone." |
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Overlook on Jackie's career |
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| "Jackie represents a gigantic step in the evolution from slavery to real freedom and equality." |
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The courageous step into changing history |
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| Between slavery and freedom lay almost a century of segregation, and Jackie Robinson and Branch Rickey helped end that phase." |
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Changing slavery and freedom forever |
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| "He was somewhat special in two ways- as a supreme athlete and as a man of rare courage fighting for a noble cause." |
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Jackie Robinson had courage and determination to make a difference. |
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| "Because their was a Jackie Robinson, future generations has forgotten there was ever a need for Jackie Robinson." |
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The impact that he made |
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| Branch Rickey believe that no other black man "could have done what he did in those first two or three years." |
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How Jackie performed in baseball |
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| Only Jackie had the outstanding intelligence and guts that were necessary. "Surely God was with me when I picked Jackie." |
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How Jackies individuality should out |
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| "The general manager of the brooklyn dodgers, Branch Rickey decided to break the tradition of having no black major league baseball players." |
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Who was Jackies mentor |
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| "Jackie was sent off to the 1946 season to the Montreal Royals.""During his season in Montreal, as well as in the championship play-offs at the end of the season, this man performed better than expected." |
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Where his career started |
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| "The next year he was brought up to the dodgers, just a few days before the season began." |
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Where history was made in major league baseball |
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| "That is what made April 15, 1947, extra special. That day was to be a landmark in the history of the United States as well as of baseball." |
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When history was mad in baseball |
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| "Rickey believed that what mattered was not the color of a player but his skill on the baseball diamond. Winning was far more important than color prejudice. |
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about how the color of your skin shouldn't define you as a baseball player. |
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| "It was said some players would refuse to play in any game in which a black man participated." |
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about racist ballplayers who refused to play baseball with black men. |
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| "Jack Roosevelt Robinson stepped up to the plate. With him, 20 million Americans took their first turn at bat in modern major league baseball." |
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Jackies first at bat into history |
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| "Jackie Roosevelt Robinson was born on January 31, 1919, in a small farmhouse near Cairo, Georgia." |
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When and where Jackie was born |
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| "You'll go far someday!" What he, like other outstanding blacks, heard instead was, "Too bad you're not white!" |
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How Racism took over |
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| Jackie states "Mr. Rickey, are you looking for a Negro who is afraid to fight back?" Rickey answered in mock anger "I'm looking for a player with guts enough not to fight back!" |
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How Jackie respected his race |
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| "Mr. Rickey, I've got to do it. If you want to take this gamble, I promise you there'll be no incidents." |
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How Jackie turned the other cheek to pursue history as the first african american (black) major league baseball player. |
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| "Jackie Roinson." . N.p., n.d. Web. 27 Mar 2014. . |
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| Allen.Jackie Robinson. New York: Franklin Watts, 1987. |
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| Weidhorn, Manfred. Jackie Robinson. New York: 1993. Print. |
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| "As a baseball player, they said, he was not good enough for the majors." |
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Underestimation of a hero |
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| "The only problem was his throwing arm- not strong enough for shortstop but good enough for second base." |
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What position Jackie was |
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| "Above all, he had to perform a delicate balancing act; he had to go in two directions at once." |
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The path chosen |
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| "On the one hand, he had to feel enough outrage an injustice to be willing to do something about it." |
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The challenge of breaking the color barrier. |
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| On the other hand, he had to refrain from temper tantrums and violence. He had to assert his rights and his dignity in a civilized way." |
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The challenges of breaking the color barrier |
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| "The first black man in baseball would be taunted and yelled at everywhere. He would be called every name in the book." |
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First black baseball player |
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| "All these other would see his forbearance as cowardice and would urge him to strike back." |
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How he was pressured to fight back |
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| "The finger of fate was pointing at Jackie Robinson, shortstop for the Kansas City Monarchs." |
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The chosen one |
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| "Rickey seemed to have found his man at last. But there would be one final test." |
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The chosen one |
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| "He did not smoke, drink or womanize. He could express himself clearly and wittily." |
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A true role model |
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| "He had leadership qualities and the courage to fight for his beliefs. He had independence and resilience." |
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Arguments supporting his race |
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| "Unwilling to accept the racism he had run into all his life, he had a strong need to be accepted at his true worth as a first-class citizen." |
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Qualities of a true leader |
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| "The season got into full gear, and Jackie found that whenever he went the cheers and adulation were mixed with curses and jeers from players and fans." |
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The struggles that Jackie faced |
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| "Race need not have anything to do with it. That was the competitive attitude used as physiological armor." |
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The battle that Jackie concured |
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| "As Jackie held up under both the stress of dodging beanballs and the injuries of spikes, his teammates came to have greater respect for him." |
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The struggles that Jackie faced |
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| "Though people predicted that after a hot hitting start Jackie's average would begin to fall, he kept up the pace. He also continued his prowess as a base stealer." |
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Believing in himself |
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| Many things contributed to Jackie's rousing success. First and foremost was his superb baseball performance. Hardly less important was his character. |
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How Jackie became so successful |
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| His combination of courage, intelligence, integrity, determination, and confidence was unique. |
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What separated him from everyone else |
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| He had the self-mastery to control his temper, at least in the first years." |
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How he controlled his temper |
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| In baseball, as in so much else, you are only as good as your last game. So, despite his tremendous season, the Little League World Series became a new test of Jackie's ability to handle abuse and pressure. He had to prove himself all over again." |
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How he handled the abuse and pressure |
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| "Jackie you're a great ballplayer and a fine gentleman. It's been wonderful having you on the team. I'd sure like to have you back on the Royals next spring. I hope Mr. Rickey wont call you up." |
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A man on and off off the field |
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| "You dont have to worry none about that boy. He's the greatest competitor I ever saw, and whats more, hes a gentlemen." |
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A true sense of character |
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| Barber, Red, 1947: When all hell broke loose in baseball. Garden city, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1982 |
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| Frommer, Harvey, Rickey and Robinson. New York: Macmillan 1982. |
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| Golenbock, Peter. Bums: An oral History of the Brooklyn Dodgers. New York: Doubleday, 1984. |
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| Jackie Robinson, with Alfred Duckett. I Never Had It Made. New York: G.P. Putnam's sons, 1972. |
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| The Robinson-Rickey relationship was one of the greatest ones in sports history. |
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True Friendship |
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| This was the first time that Jackie had received such criticism from anyone on the Dodgers. He was never good at taking criticism. Now he took it personally too; he was angry. |
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How he dealt with criticism |
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| There were the expected death threats and occasional attempts to bar Jackie. |
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The racist comments |
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| "You, Robinson! Yer outta the game!" That expulsion meant that he was not getting special treatment because of his color. |
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Arguments involving baseball |
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| "He would often tell a promising player that he had dodger potential. To an aspiring young athlete that could be quite a morale booster." |
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The fight and honor to be the best |
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| When someone was traded to the Dodgers, Jackie would be the first one to greet him. |
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True sportmanship |
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| The uniqueness of Jackie is shown by the fact that his success in 1946 and 1947 did not cause the walls of seragation to tumble down. |
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His journey to make a difference |
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| He was too special in skills and in drawing power. |
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He was an unstoppable athlete |
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| You could not generalize about the run-of-the-mill black player on the basis of what this exceptional man was able to do. |
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The way Jackie played baseball |
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| A black was no longer a freak or a delicate plant. He had the right to sound off and to err like any human being. |
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How his voice was heard across baseball |
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| He could continue to be a role model, but he didn't have to be a quiet one. |
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Role models who speak their voice |
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| "Jackie, you're on your own now. You've earned the right to be yourself." |
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First steps into individuality |
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| They could only respect fighting back. They knew courage only in its physical sense. |
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Having the guts NOT to fight back |
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| "They better be rough on me this year, because I'm sure going to be rough on them." |
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Giving it 100% effort |
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| He would take nothing from anyone anymore, umpire or player, teammate or opponenet. He would fight for his rights. He would take a strong stand against antiblack insults. |
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Fighting for what is truely right |
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| He would denounce the segregation of ballplayers in the Southern cities that the teams visited. He would be no longer only a slient hero but also a noisy spokesman. |
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Speaking his voice in fight for blacks |
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| Even baseball, now the most democratic of sports, is sick, Jackie feels. It exploits gifted young black bodies and then discards them. |
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Jackies thoughts on baseball |
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| While posing as a sacred institution dedicaed to the ublic good, it is just big buisiness, ruthless in ways that few buisnesses can match. |
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Jackies thoughts on baseball |
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| Baseball makes money for a few people and concerns itself only with the price of the entrance ticket. |
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How Jackie thought of baseball |
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| Racism is still widespread, as seen in the unwillingness of baseball to give managerial and administrative positions to blacks. |
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How baseball was affected by racism |
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| "Baseball and I are even. I got a lot. I gave a lot." |
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Jackie vs. Baseball |
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| If America was ever to be a integrated society, its national pastime proved to be the one institution where the long, complex process could begin in the least painful and in the speediest fashion. |
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America as a whole of equality |
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| The baseball that had made him great and famous seemed remote to him. After leaving it, he said that he did not miss it at all. |
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How he felt about baseball after his retirement. |
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| Together they had created a victorious baseball machine that was almost unique in remaining basically unchanged for a decade. |
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Impacting baseballs istory forever |
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| His skills, zest, and leadership made him the outstanding player of that histoic team. |
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The uniquness of Jackie |
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| Jackie was, in fact, much more than a baseball star. He was a great black man and a great American who came to his greatess by way of sports. |
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An influence of the ages |
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| "Baseball is just like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants to quit when you're ahead." |
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Baseball from an addictive standpoint |
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| Jackie was merely, as usual, the one with the guts to speak out. |
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Having a voice in baseball |
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