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How Did Jackie Robinson Make History?
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The Sports Report: Team of Jackie Robinson had no African American
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Why Jackie Robinson's story still resonates 75 years after his MLB
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The true legacy of Jackie Robinson's Dodgers debut is complicated
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Revisiting Jackie Robinson's Major-League Début, Seventy Years