Jackie Robinson remembered.(historic black baseball player)(excerpt from 'Negro Firsts in Sports')

Ebony | February 1, 1997| | Copyright

The bringing of Jackie Robinson into baseball was at once the most controversial sports development of the century, the best-planned sports maneuver in history, and as courageous as matching of athletic ability and executive acumen as sports has ever known.

The Jackie Robinson story started, in a manner of speaking, in 1942 when Branch Rickey, a baseball executive with an eye for history and drama, moved to Brooklyn as president and general manager of the Dodgers.

At the time, George C. McLaughlin was president of the Brooklyn Trust Company, which ...

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