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Originally Posted by pariah1107
Jackie Robinson has been put on a pedestal. It's too simplistic to say he integrated baseball alone. There are tens of examples of players who integrated the game, even professional baseball, well before his time on both coasts. Unfortunately they are ignored, and one man has monopolized the accolades. To say Jackie Robinson was the first to integrate professional baseball is moronic, might as well say Christopher Columbus "discovered" America.
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Not to take away from anything else, any one else did, but:
What Jackie did on the NATIONAL stage
The crap he had to put up with
He deserves every accolade he ever received