In America , sportsmen are commonly included in country's short history . And among them , besides Jesse Owens or Muhammad Ali , there is the great Jackie Robinson who was the first afro-american player in the modern era of the Major League Of Baseball in 1947 . His Major League debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers ended approximately eighty years of baseball segregation , also known as the baseball color line . It didn't take him much time to show the whole country what he was capable of , earning awards and thus respect .
Of course his story could just appear as a basic sports story , but the path of this amazing player , became the path of one of the most recognized afro-american activist .
A little bit of history before going to bed
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DJ Clark Kent , the infamous AF1 aficionado , just chose his own way of paying tribute to the retired # 42 >> be-true-to-your-pueblo.blogspot.com
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