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424 relations: ABC Afterschool Special, American Broadcasting Company, American football, American Heritage (magazine), American League, Andre Braugher, Arizona, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Asteroid, At bat, Atascadero, California, Athletics at the 1936 Summer Olympics, Athletics at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metres, Attack on Pearl Harbor, Austin American-Statesman, Austin, Texas, Barnstorming (sports), Barry Goldwater, Base on balls, Baseball, Baseball (TV series), Baseball color line, Basketball, Batting average (baseball), Ben Chapman (baseball), Bill James, Bill Russell, Bill Veeck, Black people, Blair Underwood, Bob Lemon, Bobby Thomson, Boston Braves, Boston Red Sox, Branch Rickey, Branly Cadet, Broadway theatre, Brooklyn, Brooklyn Dodgers, Brooklyn Dodgers (Continental Football League), Brookside Park (Pasadena), Bud Selig, Buddy Johnson, Butch Huskey, Cairo, Georgia, California Hall of Fame, California Winter League, Canal Street (Manhattan), Cardiovascular disease, Casey Award, ... Expand index (374 more) »
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ABC Afterschool Special
ABC Afterschool Special is an American anthology television series that aired on ABC from October 4, 1972, to January 23, 1997, usually in the late afternoon on weekdays.
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American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network that serves as the flagship property of the Disney Entertainment division of the Walt Disney Company.
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American football
American football, referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron football, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end.
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American Heritage (magazine)
American Heritage is a magazine dedicated to covering the history of the United States for a mainstream readership.
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American League
The American League of Professional Baseball Clubs, known simply as the American League (AL), is the younger of two leagues constituting Major League Baseball (MLB) in the United States and Canada.
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Andre Braugher
Andre Keith Braugher (July 1, 1962 – December 11, 2023) was an American actor known for his roles as Detective Frank Pembleton in the NBC police drama series Homicide: Life on the Street (1993–1999) and Captain Raymond Holt in the Fox/NBC police comedy series Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2013–2021).
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Arizona
Arizona (Hoozdo Hahoodzo; Alĭ ṣonak) is a landlocked state in the Southwestern region of the United States.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger
Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger (born July 30, 1947) is an Austrian and American actor, businessman, filmmaker, former politician, and former professional bodybuilder known for his roles in high-profile action films.
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Asteroid
An asteroid is a minor planet—an object that is neither a true planet nor an identified comet— that orbits within the inner Solar System.
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At bat
In baseball, an at bat (AB) or time at bat is a batter's turn batting against a pitcher.
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Atascadero, California
Atascadero (Spanish for "Mire") is a city in San Luis Obispo County, California, United States, located on U.S. Route 101.
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Athletics at the 1936 Summer Olympics
At the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, 29 athletics events were contested, 23 for men and 6 for women.
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Athletics at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metres
The men's 200 metres sprint event at the 1936 Olympic Games took place between August 4 and August 5.
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Attack on Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl HarborAlso known as the Battle of Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii, in the United States, just before 8:00a.m. (local time) on Sunday, December 7, 1941.
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Austin American-Statesman
The Austin American-Statesman is the major daily newspaper for Austin, the capital city of the U.S. state of Texas. It is owned by Gannett Co., Inc. The distribution of the following The New York Times, The Washington Post, Associated Press, and USA TODAY international and national news, but also incorporates strong Central Texas coverage, especially in political reporting.
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Austin, Texas
Austin is the capital of the U.S. state of Texas and the county seat and most populous city of Travis County, with portions extending into Hays and Williamson counties.
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Barnstorming (sports)
In athletics terminology, barnstorming refers to sports teams or individual athletes who travel to various locations, usually small towns, to stage exhibition matches.
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Barry Goldwater
Barry Morris Goldwater (January 2, 1909 – May 29, 1998) was an American politician and major general in the Air Force Reserve who served as a United States senator from 1953 to 1965 and 1969 to 1987, and was the Republican Party's nominee for president in 1964. Jackie Robinson and Barry Goldwater are presidential Medal of Freedom recipients.
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Base on balls
A base on balls (BB), better known as a walk, occurs in baseball when a batter receives four pitches during a plate appearance that the umpire calls balls, and is in turn awarded first base without the possibility of being called out.
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Baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding.
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Baseball (TV series)
Baseball is a 1994 American television documentary miniseries created by documentary filmmaker Ken Burns about the history of the sport of baseball.
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Baseball color line
The color line, also known as the color barrier, in American baseball excluded players of black African descent from Major League Baseball and its affiliated Minor Leagues until 1947 (with a few notable exceptions in the 19th century before the line was firmly established).
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Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's hoop (a basket in diameter mounted high to a backboard at each end of the court), while preventing the opposing team from shooting through their own hoop.
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Batting average (baseball)
In baseball, batting average (BA) is determined by dividing a player's hits by their total at-bats.
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Ben Chapman (baseball)
William Benjamin Chapman (December 25, 1908 – July 7, 1993) was an American professional baseball player and manager. Jackie Robinson and Ben Chapman (baseball) are Brooklyn Dodgers players.
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Bill James
George William James (born October 5, 1949) is an American baseball writer, historian, and statistician whose work has been widely influential.
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Bill Russell
William Felton Russell (February 12, 1934 – July 31, 2022) was an American professional basketball player who played center for the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1956 to 1969. Jackie Robinson and Bill Russell are African-American track and field athletes and presidential Medal of Freedom recipients.
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Bill Veeck
William Louis Veeck Jr. (February 9, 1914 – January 2, 1986), also known as "Sport Shirt Bill" and "Wild Bill", was an American Major League Baseball franchise owner and promoter. Jackie Robinson and Bill Veeck are national Baseball Hall of Fame inductees.
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Black people
Black is a racialized classification of people, usually a political and skin color-based category for specific populations with a mid- to dark brown complexion.
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Blair Underwood
Blair Erwin Underwood (born August 25, 1964) is an American actor.
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Bob Lemon
Robert Granville Lemon (September 22, 1920 – January 11, 2000) was an American right-handed pitcher and manager in Major League Baseball (MLB). Jackie Robinson and Bob Lemon are major League Baseball players with retired numbers and national Baseball Hall of Fame inductees.
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Bobby Thomson
Robert Brown Thomson (October 25, 1923 – August 16, 2010) was a Scottish-born American professional baseball player, nicknamed "the Staten Island Scot". Jackie Robinson and Bobby Thomson are national League All-Stars.
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Boston Braves
The Boston Braves were a Major League Baseball club that originated in Boston, Massachusetts, and played from 1871 to 1952.
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Boston Red Sox
The Boston Red Sox are an American professional baseball team based in Boston.
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Branch Rickey
Wesley Branch Rickey (December 20, 1881 – December 9, 1965) was an American baseball player and sports executive. Jackie Robinson and Branch Rickey are national Baseball Hall of Fame inductees and national College Baseball Hall of Fame inductees.
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Branly Cadet
Branly Cadet (born) is an American sculptor who is trained in the classical tradition of both figurative and portrait sculpture.
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Broadway theatre
Broadway theatre,Although theater is generally the spelling for this common noun in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many of the extant or closed Broadway venues use or used the spelling Theatre as the proper noun in their names.
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Brooklyn
Brooklyn is a borough of New York City.
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Brooklyn Dodgers
The Brooklyn Dodgers were a Major League Baseball team founded in 1883 as the Brooklyn Grays, next year in 1884 becoming a member of the American Association as the Brooklyn Atlantics before joining the National League in 1890.
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Brooklyn Dodgers (Continental Football League)
The Brooklyn Dodgers were a football team that played one season in the minor Continental Football League in 1966.
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Brookside Park (Pasadena)
Brookside Park is a park in Pasadena, California.
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Bud Selig
Allan Huber "Bud" Selig (born July 30, 1934) is an American baseball executive who currently serves as the Commissioner Emeritus of Baseball. Jackie Robinson and Bud Selig are national Baseball Hall of Fame inductees.
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Buddy Johnson
Woodrow Wilson "Buddy" Johnson (January 10, 1915 – February 9, 1977) was an American jump blues pianist and bandleader active from the 1930s through the 1960s.
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Butch Huskey
Robert Leon "Butch" Huskey (born November 10, 1971), is an American former professional baseball player who played in the major leagues primarily as an outfielder in 1993 and from 1995 to 2000. Jackie Robinson and Butch Huskey are 20th-century African-American sportspeople and 20th-century American sportsmen.
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Cairo, Georgia
Cairo is a city in Grady County, Georgia, United States.
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California Hall of Fame
The California Hall of Fame honors individuals and families who embody California's innovative spirit and have made their mark on history.
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California Winter League
California Winter League is a former baseball winter league.
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Canal Street (Manhattan)
Canal Street is a major east–west street of over in Lower Manhattan, New York City, United States, running from East Broadway between Essex and Jefferson Streets in the east, to West Street between Watts and Spring Streets in the west.
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Cardiovascular disease
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is any disease involving the heart or blood vessels.
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Casey Award
The Casey Award (stylized as CASEY) is an annual literary award that has been given to the best baseball book of the year since 1983.The award was created by Mike Shannon and W. J. Harrison, editors and co-founders of Spitball: The Literary Baseball Magazine because, up until then, there was no award given to authors and publishers of distinguished baseball literature; it is considered to be the most prestigious award that can be given to a baseball book.
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Catcher
Catcher is a position in baseball and softball.
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CBC Sports
CBC Sports is the division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation responsible for English-language sports broadcasting.
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CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS (an abbreviation of its original name, Columbia Broadcasting System), is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainment Group division of Paramount Global and is one of the company's three flagship subsidiaries, along with namesake Paramount Pictures and MTV.
CBS News
CBS News is the news division of the American television and radio broadcaster CBS.
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Ceremonial first pitch
The ceremonial first pitch is a longstanding ritual of baseball in which a guest of honor throws a ball to mark the end of pregame festivities and the start of the game.
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Chadwick Boseman
Chadwick Aaron Boseman (November 29, 1976August 28, 2020) was an American actor.
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Chase Park Plaza Hotel
The Chase Park Plaza Royal Sonesta St.
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Chet Brewer
Chester Arthur Brewer (January 14, 1907 – March 26, 1990) was an American right-handed pitcher in baseball's Negro leagues. Born in Leavenworth, Kansas, he played for the Kansas City Monarchs, and from 1957 to 1974 he scouted for the Pittsburgh Pirates. - Baseballbiography.com Brewer toiled on the mounds of black baseball for twenty-four years with an assortment of teams throughout the world, including China, Japan, the Philippines, Hawaii, Canada, Mexico, Panama, Puerto Rico, Haiti, Santo Domingo, and in forty-four of the forty-eight continental United States. Jackie Robinson and Chet Brewer are 20th-century African-American sportspeople and Kansas City Monarchs players.
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Chicago Tribune
The Chicago Tribune is an American daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, owned by Tribune Publishing.
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Chock full o'Nuts
Chock full o'Nuts is an American brand of coffee that originated from a chain of New York City coffee shops.
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Citi Field
Citi Field is a baseball stadium located in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, in the borough of Queens, New York City, United States.
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Citigroup
Citigroup Inc. or Citi (stylized as citi) is an American multinational investment bank and financial services company in New York City.
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a landmark civil rights and labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, and national origin.
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Civil Rights Game
The Civil Rights Game was an annual game in Major League Baseball (MLB) that honored the history of civil rights in the United States.
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Civil rights movement
The civil rights movement was a social movement and campaign from 1954 to 1968 in the United States to abolish legalized racial segregation, discrimination, and disenfranchisement in the country.
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Clay Hopper
Robert Clay Hopper (October 3, 1902 – April 17, 1976) was an American professional baseball player and manager in minor league baseball.
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Cleveland Guardians
The Cleveland Guardians are an American professional baseball team based in Cleveland.
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Cold Case
Cold Case is an American police procedural crime drama television series.
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Commander (United States)
In the United States, commander is a military rank that is also sometimes used as a military billet title—the designation of someone who manages living quarters or a base—depending on the branch of service.
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Commissioner of baseball
The commissioner of baseball is the chief executive officer of Major League Baseball (MLB) and the associated Minor League Baseball (MiLB) – a constellation of leagues and clubs known as "organized baseball".
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Congressional Gold Medal
The Congressional Gold Medal is the oldest and highest civilian award in the United States, alongside the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Jackie Robinson and Congressional Gold Medal are Congressional Gold Medal recipients.
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Continental Football League
The Continental Football League (COFL) was a professional American football minor league that operated in North America from 1965 through 1969.
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Cooperstown, New York
Cooperstown is a village in and the county seat of Otsego County, New York, United States.
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Count Basie
William James "Count" Basie (August 21, 1904 – April 26, 1984) was an American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer. Jackie Robinson and Count Basie are presidential Medal of Freedom recipients.
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Court-martial
A court-martial or court martial (plural courts-martial or courts martial, as "martial" is a postpositive adjective) is a military court or a trial conducted in such a court.
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Courts-martial of the United States
Courts-martial of the United States are trials conducted by the U.S. military or by state militaries.
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Cypress Hills Cemetery
Cypress Hills Cemetery is a non-sectarian/non-denominational cemetery corporation organized in the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens in New York City, the first of its type in the city.
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David Alan Grier
David Alan Grier (born June 30, 1956) is an American comedian and actor.
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Daytona Beach, Florida
Daytona Beach is a coastal resort city in Volusia County, Florida, United States.
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Daytop
Daytop, or Daytop Village, or “Daytop Village New Jersey Inc.” is a drug addiction treatment organization with facilities in New York City and New Jersey.
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DeLand, Florida
DeLand is a city in and the county seat of Volusia County, Florida, United States.
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DHL Hometown Heroes
DHL Hometown Heroes was a 2006 promotional event, sponsored by shipping company DHL, where Major League Baseball (MLB) fans were encouraged to vote for the most outstanding player in the history of each MLB franchise.
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Diabetes
Diabetes mellitus, often known simply as diabetes, is a group of common endocrine diseases characterized by sustained high blood sugar levels.
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Dick Littlefield
Richard Bernard Littlefield (March 18, 1926 – November 20, 1997) was an American Major League Baseball pitcher with the Boston Red Sox, Chicago White Sox, Detroit Tigers, St. Louis Browns / Baltimore Orioles, Pittsburgh Pirates, St. Louis Cardinals, New York Giants, Chicago Cubs and the Milwaukee Braves between 1950 and 1958.
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Dick Young (sportswriter)
Richard Leonard Young (October 17, 1917 – August 30, 1987) was an American sportswriter best known for his direct and abrasive style, and his 45-year association with the New York ''Daily News''.
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Dodger Stadium
Dodger Stadium is a baseball stadium in the Elysian Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.
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Don Hoak
Donald Albert Hoak (February 5, 1928 – October 9, 1969), nicknamed "Tiger", was an American professional baseball third baseman and coach. Jackie Robinson and Don Hoak are Brooklyn Dodgers players, major League Baseball broadcasters, Montreal Royals players and national League All-Stars.
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Don Newcombe
Donald Newcombe (June 14, 1926 – February 19, 2019), nicknamed "Newk", was an American professional baseball pitcher who played ten non-consecutive seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). Jackie Robinson and Don Newcombe are 20th-century African-American sportspeople, Brooklyn Dodgers players, major League Baseball Rookie of the Year Award winners, Montreal Royals players, national League All-Stars and national League Most Valuable Player Award winners.
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Doris Kearns Goodwin
Doris Helen Kearns Goodwin (born January 4, 1943) is an American biographer, historian, former sports journalist, and political commentator.
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Double (baseball)
In baseball, a double is the act of a batter striking the pitched ball and safely reaching second base without being called out by the umpire, without the benefit of a fielder's misplay (see error) or another runner being put out on a fielder's choice.
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Double play
In baseball and softball, a double play (denoted as DP in baseball statistics) is the act of making two outs during the same continuous play.
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Dugout (baseball)
In baseball, the dugout is a team's bench and is located in foul territory between home plate and either first or third base.
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E. P. Dutton
E.
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East–West All-Star Game
The East–West All-Star Game was an annual all-star game for Negro league baseball players.
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Ebbets Field
Ebbets Field was a Major League Baseball stadium in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, New York.
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Eddie Stanky
Edward Raymond Stanky (born Stankiewicz (September 3, 1915 – June 6, 1999) was an American professional baseball second baseman, shortstop, and manager. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Chicago Cubs, Brooklyn Dodgers, Boston Braves, New York Giants, and St. Louis Cardinals between 1943 and 1953. Jackie Robinson and Eddie Stanky are Brooklyn Dodgers players and national League All-Stars.
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Edward Schmidt
Ed Schmidt (Ed Schmidt; born 1961) is an American playwright, known for "Mr.
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Encyclopædia Britannica
The British Encyclopaedia is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.
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Enos Slaughter
Enos Bradsher Slaughter (April 27, 1916 – August 12, 2002), nicknamed "Country", was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) right fielder. Jackie Robinson and Enos Slaughter are major League Baseball players with retired numbers, national Baseball Hall of Fame inductees and national League All-Stars.
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ESPN
ESPN (an abbreviation of its original name, the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) is an American international basic cable sports channel owned by The Walt Disney Company (80% and operational control) and Hearst Communications (20%) through the joint venture ESPN Inc. The company was founded in 1979 by Bill Rasmussen, Scott Rasmussen and Ed Eagan.
Exhibition game
An exhibition game (also known as a friendly, a scrimmage, a demonstration, a pre-season game, a warmup match, or a preparation match, depending at least in part on the sport) is a sporting event whose prize money and impact on the player's or the team's rankings is either zero or otherwise greatly reduced.
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Farm team
In sports, a farm team, farm system, feeder team, feeder club, or nursery club is generally a team or club whose role is to provide experience and training for young players, with an agreement that any successful players can move on to a higher level at a given point, usually in an association with a major-level parent team.
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Fenway Park
Fenway Park is a baseball stadium located in Boston, Massachusetts, less than one mile from Kenmore Square.
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Fielding percentage
In baseball statistics, fielding percentage, also known as fielding average, is a measure that reflects the percentage of times a defensive player properly handles a batted or thrown ball.
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First baseman
A first baseman, abbreviated 1B, is the player on a baseball or softball team who fields the area nearest first base, the first of four bases a baserunner must touch in succession to score a run.
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Ford Frick
Ford Christopher Frick (December 19, 1894 – April 8, 1978) was an American sportswriter and baseball executive. Jackie Robinson and Ford Frick are national Baseball Hall of Fame inductees.
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Fort Cavazos
Fort Cavazos is a United States Army post located near Killeen, Texas.
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Fort Riley
Fort Riley is a United States Army installation located in North Central Kansas, on the Kansas River, also known as the Kaw, between Junction City and Manhattan.
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Frank Robinson
Frank Robinson (August 31, 1935 – February 7, 2019) was an American professional baseball outfielder and manager in Major League Baseball (MLB) who played for five teams over 21 seasons: the Cincinnati Reds (1956–1965), Baltimore Orioles (1966–1971), Los Angeles Dodgers (1972), California Angels (1973–1974), and Cleveland Indians (1974–1976). Jackie Robinson and Frank Robinson are 20th-century African-American sportspeople, major League Baseball Rookie of the Year Award winners, major League Baseball broadcasters, major League Baseball players with retired numbers, national Baseball Hall of Fame inductees, national League All-Stars, national League Most Valuable Player Award winners and presidential Medal of Freedom recipients.
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Fred Wilpon
Fred Wilpon (born November 22, 1936) is an American real estate developer and former baseball executive.
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Freedom National Bank
Freedom National Bank was an African-American owned bank in Harlem (New York City) founded in 1964 and shut down in 1990.
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Gale (publisher)
Gale is a global provider of research and digital learning resources.
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Gene Schoor
Eugene R. Schoor (July 26, 1914 – December 13, 2000) was a New York-based author, journalist, ghost-writer,"Rocky Loses Court Fight," The Miami News, April 24, 1963, p. 3C.
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General manager (baseball)
In Major League Baseball, the general manager (GM) of a team typically controls player transactions and bears the primary responsibility on behalf of the ballclub during contract discussions with players.
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George Sisler
George Harold Sisler (March 24, 1893 – March 26, 1973), nicknamed "Gorgeous George", was an American professional baseball first baseman and player-manager. Jackie Robinson and George Sisler are national Baseball Hall of Fame inductees and national College Baseball Hall of Fame inductees.
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George W. Bush
George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician and businessman who served as the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009.
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George Weiss (baseball)
George Martin Weiss (June 23, 1894 – August 13, 1972) was an American professional baseball executive. Jackie Robinson and George Weiss (baseball) are national Baseball Hall of Fame inductees.
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Google Books
Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search, Google Print, and by its code-name Project Ocean) is a service from Google that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database.
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Grandfather clause
A grandfather clause, also known as grandfather policy, grandfathering, or being grandfathered in, is a provision in which an old rule continues to apply to some existing situations while a new rule will apply to all future cases.
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Great Migration (African American)
The Great Migration, sometimes known as the Great Northward Migration or the Black Migration, was the movement of six million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West between 1910 and 1970.
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Greenville Downtown Airport
Greenville Downtown Airport is an airport three miles east of Greenville, South Carolina, United States.
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Greenville, South Carolina
Greenville (locally) is a city in and the county seat of Greenville County, South Carolina, United States.
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Hank Aaron
Henry Louis Aaron (February 5, 1934 – January 22, 2021), nicknamed "Hammer" or "Hammerin' Hank", was an American professional baseball right fielder and designated hitter who played 23 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB), from 1954 through 1976. Jackie Robinson and Hank Aaron are major League Baseball players with retired numbers, national Baseball Hall of Fame inductees, national League All-Stars, national League Most Valuable Player Award winners, national League batting champions, presidential Medal of Freedom recipients and Spingarn Medal winners.
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Hank Greenberg
Henry Benjamin Greenberg (January 1, 1911 – September 4, 1986), nicknamed "Hammerin' Hank", "Hankus Pankus", and "the Hebrew Hammer", was an American professional baseball player and team executive. Jackie Robinson and Hank Greenberg are major League Baseball players with retired numbers and national Baseball Hall of Fame inductees.
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Happy Chandler
Albert Benjamin "Happy" Chandler Sr. (July 14, 1898 – June 15, 1991) was an American politician from Kentucky. Jackie Robinson and Happy Chandler are national Baseball Hall of Fame inductees.
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Harlem
Harlem is a neighborhood in Upper Manhattan in New York City.
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Harlem Globetrotters
The Harlem Globetrotters are an American exhibition basketball team.
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Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884December 26, 1972) was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953. Jackie Robinson and Harry S. Truman are activists for African-American civil rights and Congressional Gold Medal recipients.
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HBO
Home Box Office (HBO) is an American pay television network, which is the flagship property of namesake parent-subsidiary Home Box Office, Inc., itself a unit owned by Warner Bros. Discovery.
History Channel
History (stylized in all caps), formerly and commonly known as the History Channel, is an American pay television network and flagship channel owned by A&E Networks, a joint venture between Hearst Communications and The Walt Disney Company's General Entertainment Content Division.
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Hitting for the cycle
In baseball, hitting for the cycle is the accomplishment of one batter who hits a single, a double, a triple, and a home run in the same game.
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Home run
In baseball, a home run (abbreviated HR) is scored when the ball is hit in such a way that the batter is able to circle the bases and reach home plate safely in one play without any errors being committed by the defensive team.
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Honolulu
Honolulu is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Hawaii, which is in the Pacific Ocean.
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House Un-American Activities Committee
The House Committee on Un-American Activities (HCUA), popularly the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), was an investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives, created in 1938 to investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities on the part of private citizens, public employees, and those organizations suspected of having communist ties.
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Houston Astros
The Houston Astros are an American professional baseball team based in Houston.
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Hubert Humphrey
Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr. (May 27, 1911 – January 13, 1978) was an American politician and statesman who served as the 38th vice president of the United States from 1965 to 1969. Jackie Robinson and Hubert Humphrey are activists for African-American civil rights, Congressional Gold Medal recipients and presidential Medal of Freedom recipients.
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Huston–Tillotson University
Huston–Tillotson University (HT) is a private historically black university in Austin, Texas, United States.
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Ilan Stavans
Ilan Stavans (born Ilán Stavchansky, 1961) is an American writer and academic.
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IMDb
IMDb (an acronym for Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, podcasts, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews.
Inning
In baseball, softball, and similar games, an inning is the basic unit of play, consisting of two halves or frames, the "top" (first half) and the "bottom" (second half).
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International League
The International League (IL) is a Minor League Baseball league that operates in the United States.
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Isadore H. Y. Muchnick
Isadore Harry Yaver Muchnick (January 11, 1908 – September 15, 1963) was an American politician who served as a member of the Boston City Council from 1942 to 1947 and the Boston School Committee from 1948 to 1953.
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J. P. Small Memorial Stadium
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Jackie Robinson (miniseries)
Jackie Robinson is a 2016 American television documentary miniseries directed by Ken Burns.
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Jackie Robinson Ballpark
The Jackie Robinson Ballpark (also known as Jackie Robinson Stadium or City Island Ball Park) is a historic baseball field in Daytona Beach, Florida, United States.
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Jackie Robinson Day
Jackie Robinson Day is a traditional event which occurs annually on April 15 in Major League Baseball (MLB), commemorating and honoring the day Jackie Robinson made his major league debut.
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Jackie Robinson Foundation
The Jackie Robinson Foundation is a national, 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, which gives scholarships to minority youths for higher education, as well as preserves the legacy of Baseball Hall of Fame member Jackie Robinson.
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Jackie Robinson House
The Jackie Robinson House is a historic house at 5224 Tilden Avenue in the New York City borough of Brooklyn.
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Jackie Robinson Museum
The Jackie Robinson Museum is a museum and educational center on Varick Street in Manhattan that honors the legacy of Jackie Robinson.
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Jackie Robinson Park
Jackie Robinson Park (formerly Colonial Park) is a public park in the Hamilton Heights and Harlem neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City.
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Jackie Robinson Parkway
The Jackie Robinson Parkway is a controlled-access parkway in the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens.
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Jackie Robinson Stadium
Jackie Robinson Stadium is a college baseball park in Los Angeles, California.
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Jacksonville, Florida
Jacksonville is the most populous city proper in the U.S. state of Florida, located on the Atlantic coast of northeastern Florida.
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Jamie Foxx
Eric Marlon Bishop (born December 13, 1967), known professionally as Jamie Foxx, is an American actor, singer, and comedian.
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Jarry Park
Jarry Park is an urban park in the Villeray–Saint-Michel–Parc-Extension borough of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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Jersey City Giants
The Jersey City Giants was the name of a high-level American minor league baseball franchise that played at Roosevelt Stadium in Jersey City, New Jersey, as the top farm system affiliate of the New York Giants from 1937 through 1950.
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Jersey City, New Jersey
Jersey City is the second-most populous, New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development.
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Jesse Jackson
Jesse Louis Jackson (né Burns; born October 8, 1941) is an American civil rights activist, politician, and ordained Baptist minister. Jackie Robinson and Jesse Jackson are activists for African-American civil rights, presidential Medal of Freedom recipients and Spingarn Medal winners.
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Jesse Owens
James Cleveland "Jesse" Owens (September 12, 1913 – March 31, 1980) was an American track and field athlete who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games. Jackie Robinson and Jesse Owens are 20th-century African-American sportspeople, 20th-century American sportsmen, African-American track and field athletes, American male long jumpers, Congressional Gold Medal recipients and presidential Medal of Freedom recipients.
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is a Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) in La Cañada Flintridge, California, Crescenta Valley, United States.
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Jews
The Jews (יְהוּדִים) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites of the ancient Near East, and whose traditional religion is Judaism.
Jim Gilliam
James William "Junior" Gilliam (October 17, 1928 – October 8, 1978) was an American second baseman, third baseman, and coach in Negro league and Major League Baseball who spent his entire major league career with the Brooklyn / Los Angeles Dodgers. Jackie Robinson and Jim Gilliam are 20th-century African-American sportspeople, Brooklyn Dodgers players, major League Baseball Rookie of the Year Award winners, major League Baseball players with retired numbers, Montreal Royals players and national League All-Stars.
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Joe Louis
Joseph Louis Barrow (May 13, 1914 – April 12, 1981) was an American professional boxer who competed from 1934 to 1951. Jackie Robinson and Joe Louis are Congressional Gold Medal recipients.
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Joe Posnanski
Joe Posnanski (born January 8, 1967), nicknamed "Poz" and "Joe Po", is an American sports journalist.
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John F. Kennedy
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to as JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. Jackie Robinson and John F. Kennedy are activists for African-American civil rights and presidential Medal of Freedom recipients.
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John Kerry
John Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is an American attorney, politician, and diplomat who served as the 68th United States secretary of state from 2013 to 2017 in the administration of Barack Obama. Jackie Robinson and John Kerry are presidential Medal of Freedom recipients.
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John Muir High School
John Muir High School is a four-year comprehensive secondary school in Pasadena, California, United States and is a part of the Pasadena Unified School District. Jackie Robinson and John Muir High School are John Muir High School alumni.
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Johnny Wright (baseball)
John Richard Wright (November 28, 1916 – May 4, 1990) was a Negro league pitcher who played briefly in the International League of baseball's minor leagues in 1946, and was on the roster of the Montreal Royals at the same time as Jackie Robinson, making him a plausible candidate to have broken the baseball color barrier. Jackie Robinson and Johnny Wright (baseball) are 20th-century African-American sportspeople and Montreal Royals players.
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Josh Gibson
Joshua Gibson (December 21, 1911 – January 20, 1947) was an American baseball catcher primarily in the Negro leagues. Jackie Robinson and Josh Gibson are 20th-century American sportsmen and national Baseball Hall of Fame inductees.
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Journal Square Transportation Center
The Journal Square Transportation Center is a multi-modal transportation hub located on Magnolia Avenue and Kennedy Boulevard at Journal Square in Jersey City, New Jersey, United States.
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Kansas City Monarchs
The Kansas City Monarchs were the longest-running franchise in the history of baseball's Negro leagues.
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Ken Burns
Kenneth Lauren Burns (born July 29, 1953) is an American filmmaker known for his documentary films and television series, many of which chronicle American history and culture.
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Ken Griffey Jr.
George Kenneth Griffey Jr. (born November 21, 1969), nicknamed "Junior" and "the Kid", is an American former professional baseball outfielder who played 22 years in Major League Baseball (MLB). Jackie Robinson and Ken Griffey Jr. are major League Baseball players with retired numbers, national Baseball Hall of Fame inductees and national League All-Stars.
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Kenneth T. Jackson
Kenneth T. Jackson is an urban, social, cultural historian, author, and academic.
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Kenny Washington (American football)
Kenneth Stanley Washington (August 31, 1918 – June 24, 1971) was an American professional football player who was the first African-American to sign a contract with a National Football League (NFL) team in the modern (post-World War II) era. Jackie Robinson and Kenny Washington (American football) are 20th-century African-American sportspeople and UCLA Bruins football players.
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Kentucky
Kentucky, officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States.
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Kevin Love
Kevin Wesley Love (born September 7, 1988) is an American professional basketball player for the Miami Heat of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Jackie Robinson and Kevin Love are UCLA Bruins men's basketball players.
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Langston University
Langston University (LU) is a public land-grant historically black university in Langston, Oklahoma.
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Larry Doby
Lawrence Eugene Doby (December 13, 1923 – June 18, 2003) was an American professional baseball player in the Negro leagues and Major League Baseball (MLB) who was the second black player to break baseball's color barrier and the first black player in the American League. Jackie Robinson and Larry Doby are Congressional Gold Medal recipients, major League Baseball players with retired numbers and national Baseball Hall of Fame inductees.
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Leadoff hitter
In baseball, a leadoff hitter is a batter who bats first in the lineup.
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Lee Handley
Lee Elmer Handley (July 13, 1913 – April 8, 1970) was an American professional baseball second baseman and third baseman. Jackie Robinson and Lee Handley are national League stolen base champions.
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Leo Durocher
Leo Ernest Durocher (French spelling Léo Ernest Durocher) (July 27, 1905 – October 7, 1991), nicknamed "Leo the Lip" and "Lippy", was an American professional baseball player, manager and coach. Jackie Robinson and Leo Durocher are Brooklyn Dodgers players, major League Baseball broadcasters, national Baseball Hall of Fame inductees and national League All-Stars.
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Letterman (sports)
In sports or activities in the United States, a letterman is a high school or college student who has met a specified level of participation or performance on a varsity team.
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Library of Congress
The Library of Congress (LOC) is a research library in Washington, D.C. that serves as the library and research service of the U.S. Congress and the de facto national library of the United States.
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Life (magazine)
Life is an American magazine published weekly from 1883 to 1972, as an intermittent "special" until 1978, a monthly from 1978 until 2000, and an online supplement since 2008.
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Liga de Béisbol Profesional Roberto Clemente
Liga de Béisbol Profesional Roberto Clemente (LBPRC) is the main professional baseball league in Puerto Rico; it is colloquially referred to as the Puerto Rican Winter League.
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List of first black Major League Baseball players
The baseball color line excluded players of Black African descent from Major League Baseball and its affiliated Minor Leagues until 1947 (with a few notable exceptions in the 19th century before the line was firmly established).
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List of Major League Baseball annual stolen base leaders
Major League Baseball recognizes stolen base leaders in the American League and National League each season.
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List of Major League Baseball batting champions
In baseball, batting average (AVG) is a measure of a batter's success rate in achieving a hit during an at bat.
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List of Major League Baseball career batting average leaders
In baseball, the batting average (BA) is defined by the number of hits divided by at bats.
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List of Major League Baseball career on-base percentage leaders
In baseball statistics, on-base percentage (OBP) is a measure of how often a batter reaches base for any reason other than a fielding error, fielder's choice, dropped or uncaught third strike, fielder's obstruction, or catcher's interference.
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List of Major League Baseball career stolen bases leaders
In baseball statistics, a stolen base is credited to a baserunner when he successfully advances to the next base while the pitcher is throwing the ball to home plate.
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List of Major League Baseball players to hit for the cycle
In baseball, completing the cycle is the accomplishment of hitting a single, a double, a triple, and a home run in the same game.
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List of Major League Baseball players who spent their entire career with one franchise
The following is a list of former Major League Baseball (MLB) players who played in at least 10 MLB seasons and spent their entire MLB playing careers exclusively with one franchise.
List of Major League Baseball retired numbers
Major League Baseball (MLB) and its participating clubs have retired various uniform numbers over the course of time, ensuring that those numbers are never worn again and thus will always be associated with particular players or managers of note. Jackie Robinson and List of Major League Baseball retired numbers are major League Baseball players with retired numbers.
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List of minor planets: 4001–5000
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List of NCAA major college football yearly punt and kickoff return leaders
The list of NCAA major college football yearly punt and kickoff return leaders identifies the major college leaders for each season from 1939 to the present.
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List of NCAA major college football yearly rushing leaders
The list of college football yearly rushing leaders identifies the major college rushing leaders for each season from 1937 to the present.
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List of Negro league baseball players who played in Major League Baseball
This List of Negro league baseball players who played in Major League Baseball is largely based on the research compiled by the Center for Negro League Baseball Research.
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List of Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients
This is a partial list of recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, listed chronologically within the aspect of life in which each recipient is or was renowned. Jackie Robinson and list of Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients are presidential Medal of Freedom recipients.
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List of sports desegregation firsts
This is a list of sports desegregation firsts.
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Long jump
The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a takeoff point.
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Look (American magazine)
Look was a biweekly, general-interest magazine published in Des Moines, Iowa, from 1937 to 1971, with editorial offices in New York City.
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Los Angeles Bulldogs
The Los Angeles Bulldogs were a professional American football team that competed from 1936 to 1948 (the last year as the Long Beach Bulldogs).
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Los Angeles Dodgers
The Los Angeles Dodgers are an American professional baseball team based in Los Angeles.
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Los Angeles Red Devils
The Los Angeles Red Devils were an independent basketball team that played from 1946 to 1947.
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Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.
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Lovecraft Country (TV series)
Lovecraft Country is an American horror drama television series developed by Misha Green based on and serving as a continuation of the 2016 novel by Matt Ruff.
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Lower Manhattan
Lower Manhattan, also known as Downtown Manhattan or Downtown New York City, is the southernmost part of Manhattan, the central borough of New York City.
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Mack Robinson (athlete)
Matthew MacKenzie "Mack" Robinson (July 18, 1914 – March 12, 2000) was an American track and field athlete. Jackie Robinson and Mack Robinson (athlete) are African-American track and field athletes and track and field athletes from California.
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Maimonides Park
Maimonides Park (formerly MCU Park and KeySpan Park) is a minor league baseball stadium on the Riegelmann Boardwalk in the Coney Island neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City.
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Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball league and the highest level of organized baseball in the United States and Canada.
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Major League Baseball All-Century Team
In 1999, the Major League Baseball All-Century Team was chosen by popular vote of fans.
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Major League Baseball All-Star Game
The Major League Baseball All-Star Game, also known as the "Midsummer Classic", is an annual professional baseball game sanctioned by Major League Baseball (MLB) and contested between the all-stars from the American League (AL) and National League (NL).
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Major League Baseball Game of the Week
The Major League Baseball Game of the Week (GOTW) is the de facto title for nationally televised coverage of regular season Major League Baseball games.
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Major League Baseball Most Valuable Player Award
The Major League Baseball Most Valuable Player Award (MVP) is an annual Major League Baseball (MLB) award given to one outstanding player in the American League and one in the National League.
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Major League Baseball on ABC
National television broadcasts of Major League Baseball (MLB) games have aired on ABC in various formats.
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Major League Baseball Rookie of the Year Award
In Major League Baseball, the Rookie of the Year Award is given annually to two outstanding rookie players, one each for the American League (AL) and National League (NL), as voted on by the Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA). Jackie Robinson and Major League Baseball Rookie of the Year Award are major League Baseball Rookie of the Year Award winners.
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Major professional sports teams of the United States and Canada
This article is a list of teams that play in the major professional leagues in the United States and Canada: Major League Baseball (MLB), the National Football League (NFL), the National Basketball Association (NBA), the National Hockey League (NHL), Major League Soccer (MLS), and the Canadian Football League (CFL), Est.
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Maria Shriver
Maria Owings Shriver (born November 6, 1955) is an American journalist, author, a member of the Kennedy family, former First Lady of California, and the founder of the nonprofit organization The Women's Alzheimer's Movement.
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Mariano Rivera
Mariano Rivera (born November 29, 1969) is a Panamanian-American former professional baseball pitcher who played 19 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees, from 1995 to 2013. Jackie Robinson and Mariano Rivera are major League Baseball players with retired numbers, national Baseball Hall of Fame inductees and presidential Medal of Freedom recipients.
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Marques Haynes
Marques Haynes (March 10, 1926 – May 22, 2015) was an American professional basketball player and member of the Harlem Globetrotters, notable for his ability to dribble the ball and keep it away from defenders. Jackie Robinson and Marques Haynes are 20th-century African-American sportspeople.
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Marshall Cavendish
Marshall Cavendish is a subsidiary company of Times Publishing Group, the printing and publishing subsidiary of Singapore-based conglomerate Fraser and Neave (which in turn currently owned by ThaiBev, a Thai beverage company), and at present is a publisher of books, business directories and magazines.
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Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister, activist, and political philosopher who was one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. Jackie Robinson and Martin Luther King Jr. are activists for African-American civil rights, American nonviolence advocates, Congressional Gold Medal recipients, presidential Medal of Freedom recipients and Spingarn Medal winners.
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Mary McLeod Bethune
Mary Jane McLeod Bethune (July 10, 1875 – May 18, 1955) was an American educator, philanthropist, humanitarian, womanist, and civil rights activist. Jackie Robinson and Mary McLeod Bethune are activists for African-American civil rights, African-American Methodists and Spingarn Medal winners.
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Military discharge
A military discharge is given when a member of the armed forces is released from their obligation to serve.
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Military history of African Americans
The military history of African Americans spans African-American history, the history of the United States and the military history of the United States from the arrival of the first enslaved Africans during the colonial history of the United States to the present day.
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Military Police Corps (United States)
The United States Army Military Police Corps (USAMPC) is the uniformed law enforcement branch of the United States Army.
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Milwaukee Brewers
The Milwaukee Brewers are an American professional baseball team based in Milwaukee.
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Minnie Miñoso
Saturnino Orestes "Minnie" Armas Arrieta Miñoso (November 29, 1924 – March 1, 2015), nicknamed "the Cuban Comet", was a Cuban professional baseball player. Jackie Robinson and Minnie Miñoso are major League Baseball players with retired numbers and national Baseball Hall of Fame inductees.
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MLB.com
MLB.com is the official site of Major League Baseball and is overseen by Major League Baseball Advanced Media, L.P. (a subsidiary of MLB).
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Mo Vaughn
Maurice Samuel Vaughn (born December 15, 1967), nicknamed "the Hit Dog", is an American former Major League Baseball first baseman who played for the Boston Red Sox, Anaheim Angels, and New York Mets from 1991 to 2003. Jackie Robinson and Mo Vaughn are 20th-century African-American sportspeople.
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Molefi Kete Asante
Molefi Kete Asante (born Arthur Lee Smith Jr.; August 14, 1942) is an American philosopher who is a leading figure in the fields of African-American studies, African studies, and communication studies.
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Montreal
Montreal is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest in Canada, and the tenth-largest in North America.
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Montreal Expos
The Montreal Expos (Les Expos de Montréal) were a Canadian professional baseball team based in Montreal.
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Montreal Royals
The Montreal Royals were a minor league professional baseball team in Montreal, Quebec, during 1897–1917 and 1928–1960.
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Montreal Standard
The Montreal Standard, later known as The Standard, was a national weekly pictorial newspaper published in Montreal, Quebec, founded by Hugh Graham.
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Monument Park (Yankee Stadium)
Monument Park is an open-air museum located in Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, New York City.
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Morningside Heights
Morningside Heights is a neighborhood on the West Side of Upper Manhattan in New York City.
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Moses Fleetwood Walker
Moses Fleetwood Walker (October 7, 1856 – May 11, 1924), sometimes nicknamed Fleet Walker, was an American professional baseball catcher who, historically, was credited with being the first black man to play in Major League Baseball (MLB).
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Mr. Rickey Calls a Meeting
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Musical theatre
Musical theatre is a form of theatrical performance that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance.
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Myocardial infarction
A myocardial infarction (MI), commonly known as a heart attack, occurs when blood flow decreases or stops in one of the coronary arteries of the heart, causing infarction (tissue death) to the heart muscle.
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NAACP
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is an American civil rights organization formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group including W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington, Moorfield Storey, Ida B. Wells, Lillian Wald, and Henry Moskowitz.
National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum is a history museum and hall of fame in Cooperstown, New York, operated by private interests.
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National Basketball Association
The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a professional basketball league in North America composed of 30 teams (29 in the United States and 1 in Canada).
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National Historic Landmark
A National Historic Landmark (NHL) is a building, district, object, site, or structure that is officially recognized by the United States government for its outstanding historical significance.
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National Hockey League
The National Hockey League (NHL; Ligue nationale de hockey, LNH) is a professional ice hockey league in North America comprising 32 teams25 in the United States and 7 in Canada.
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National League (baseball)
The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs, known simply as the National League (NL), is the older of two leagues constituting Major League Baseball (MLB) in the United States and Canada, and the world's oldest extant professional team sports league.
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National Youth Administration
The National Youth Administration (NYA) was a New Deal agency sponsored by Franklin D. Roosevelt during his presidency.
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NBC Sports
NBC Sports is an American programming division of the broadcast network NBC, owned and operated by the NBC Sports Group division of NBCUniversal and subsidiary of Comcast.
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Negro American League
The Negro American League was one of the several Negro leagues created during the time organized American baseball was segregated.
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Negro league baseball
The Negro leagues were United States professional baseball leagues comprising teams of African Americans.
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Nelson Rockefeller
Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (July 8, 1908 – January 26, 1979), sometimes referred to by his nickname Rocky, was an American businessman and politician who served as the 41st vice president of the United States from 1974 to 1977 under President Gerald Ford. Jackie Robinson and Nelson Rockefeller are activists for African-American civil rights and presidential Medal of Freedom recipients.
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New Year's Day March
The New Year's Day March in Greenville, South Carolina was a 1,000-man march that protested the segregated facilities at the Greenville Municipal Airport, now renamed the Greenville Downtown Airport.
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New York Daily News
The New York Daily News, officially titled the Daily News, is an American newspaper based in Jersey City, New Jersey.
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New York Giants (baseball)
The New York Giants were a Major League Baseball team in the National League that began play in the season as the New York Gothams and became known as the Giants in.
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New York Herald Tribune
The New York Herald Tribune was a newspaper published between 1924 and 1966.
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New York Mets
The New York Mets are an American professional baseball team based in the New York City borough of Queens.
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New York Post
The New York Post (NY Post) is an American conservative daily tabloid newspaper published in New York City.
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New York State Athletic Commission
The New York State Athletic Commission or NYSAC, also known as the New York Athletic Commission, is a division of the New York State Department of State which regulates all contests and exhibitions of unarmed combat within the state of New York, including licensure and supervision of promoters, boxers, professional wrestlers, seconds, ring officials, managers, and matchmakers.
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New York Yankees
The New York Yankees are an American professional baseball team based in the New York City borough of the Bronx.
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Nigger
In the English language, nigger is a racial slur directed at black people.
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Nonviolence
Nonviolence is the personal practice of not causing harm to others under any condition.
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North Stamford
North Stamford is an affluent section of Stamford, Connecticut, United States, north of the Merritt Parkway.
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Off-Broadway
An off-Broadway theatre is any professional theatre venue in New York City with a seating capacity between 100 and 499, inclusive.
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Officer Candidate School (United States Army)
The United States Army's Officer Candidate School (OCS) is an officer candidate school located at Fort Moore (formerly Fort Benning), Georgia, that trains, assesses, and evaluates potential commissioned officers of the U.S. Army, U.S. Army Reserve, and Army National Guard.
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Old-Timers' Day
Old-Timers' Day (or Old-Timers' Game) refers to a tradition in Major League Baseball where a team devotes the early afternoon preceding a weekend game to honor retired players who played for the organization during their careers.
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On-base percentage
In baseball statistics, on-base percentage (OBP) measures how frequently a batter reaches base.
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Outfielder
An outfielder is a person playing in one of the three defensive positions in baseball or softball, farthest from the batter.
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Pacific Coast Professional Football League
The Pacific Coast Professional Football League (PCPFL), also known as the Pacific Coast Football League (PCFL) and Pacific Coast League (PCL) was a professional American football minor league based in California.
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Pasadena City College
Pasadena City College (PCC) is a public community college in Pasadena, California.
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Pasadena City Hall
Pasadena City Hall is the historic city hall of Pasadena, California, United States.
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Pasadena Star-News
The Pasadena Star-News is a paid local daily newspaper for the greater Pasadena, California area.
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Pasadena, California
Pasadena is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States, northeast of downtown Los Angeles.
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Paul L. Bates
Paul Levern Bates (March 4, 1908 – February 21, 1995) was a United States Army officer.
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Paul Robeson
Paul Leroy Robeson (April 9, 1898 – January 23, 1976) was an American bass-baritone concert artist, actor, professional football player, and activist who became famous both for his cultural accomplishments and for his political stances. Jackie Robinson and Paul Robeson are activists for African-American civil rights and Spingarn Medal winners.
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PBS
The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and non-commercial, free-to-air television network based in Crystal City, Virginia.
Pee Wee Reese
Harold Peter Henry "Pee Wee" Reese (July 23, 1918 – August 14, 1999) was an American professional baseball player. Jackie Robinson and Pee Wee Reese are Brooklyn Dodgers players, major League Baseball broadcasters, major League Baseball players with retired numbers, Montreal Expos announcers, national Baseball Hall of Fame inductees, national League All-Stars and national League stolen base champions.
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People (magazine)
People is an American weekly magazine that specializes in celebrity news and human-interest stories.
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Philadelphia Phillies
The Philadelphia Phillies are an American professional baseball team based in Philadelphia.
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Pittsburgh Courier
The Pittsburgh Courier was an African American weekly newspaper published in Pittsburgh from 1907 until October 22, 1966.
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Pittsburgh Pirates
The Pittsburgh Pirates are an American professional baseball team based in Pittsburgh.
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Play to Win (musical)
Play to Win is a 1989 musical with book and lyrics by James de Jongh, Charles Cleveland and music by Jimi Foster, based on the life of Jackie Robinson the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball player who was the first black player in major-league baseball.
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Pomona, California
Pomona is a city in eastern Los Angeles County, California, United States.
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Presidential Medal of Freedom
The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the highest civilian award of the United States, alongside the Congressional Gold Medal. Jackie Robinson and Presidential Medal of Freedom are presidential Medal of Freedom recipients.
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Prima donna
In opera or commedia dell'arte, a prima donna (Italian for 'first lady';: prime donne) is the leading female singer in the company, the person to whom the prime roles would be given.
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Quarterback
The quarterback (commonly abbreviated "QB"), colloquially known as the "signal caller", is a position in gridiron football.
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Rachel Robinson
Rachel Annetta Robinson (née Isum; born July 19, 1922) is an American former professor and registered nurse.
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Racism in the United States
Racism has been reflected in discriminatory laws, practices, and actions (including violence) against "racial" or ethnic groups, throughout the history of the United States.
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Reading Eagle
The Reading Eagle is the major daily newspaper in Reading, Pennsylvania.
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Richard Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913April 22, 1994) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 37th president of the United States from 1969 to 1974.
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Riverside Church
Riverside Church is an interdenominational church in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City, associated with the American Baptist Churches USA and the United Church of Christ.
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Roberto Clemente
Roberto Enrique Clemente Walker (August 18, 1934 – December 31, 1972) was a Puerto Rican professional baseball player who played 18 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Pittsburgh Pirates, primarily as a right fielder. Jackie Robinson and Roberto Clemente are Congressional Gold Medal recipients, major League Baseball players with retired numbers, Montreal Royals players, national Baseball Hall of Fame inductees, national League All-Stars, national League Most Valuable Player Award winners, national League batting champions and presidential Medal of Freedom recipients.
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Roger Kahn
Roger Kahn (October 31, 1927 – February 6, 2020) was an American author, best known for his 1972 baseball book The Boys of Summer.
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Ronald Reagan
Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911June 5, 2004) was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989. Jackie Robinson and Ronald Reagan are major League Baseball broadcasters.
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Roosevelt Stadium
Roosevelt Stadium was a baseball stadium at Droyer's Point in Jersey City, New Jersey.
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Rose Bowl (stadium)
The Rose Bowl is an outdoor athletic stadium located in Pasadena, California.
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Roy Campanella
Roy Campanella (November 19, 1921 – June 26, 1993), nicknamed "Campy", was an American professional baseball player, primarily as a catcher. Jackie Robinson and Roy Campanella are 20th-century African-American sportspeople, Brooklyn Dodgers players, major League Baseball players with retired numbers, Montreal Royals players, national Baseball Hall of Fame inductees, national League All-Stars and national League Most Valuable Player Award winners.
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Ruby Dee
Ruby Dee (October 27, 1922 – June 11, 2014) was an American actress, poet, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, and civil rights activist. Jackie Robinson and Ruby Dee are activists for African-American civil rights and Spingarn Medal winners.
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Rud Rennie
Cecil Rutherford "Rud" Rennie (August 8, 1897 – October 6, 1956), newspaperman, was a sportswriter for the New York Herald Tribune, chiefly assigned to the New York Yankees baseball team and the New York Giants football team, for some 36 years.
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Run (baseball)
In baseball, a run is scored when a player advances around first, second and third base and returns safely to home plate, touching the bases in that order, before three outs are recorded and all obligations to reach base safely on batted balls are met or assured.
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Run batted in
A run batted in or runs batted in (RBI) is a statistic in baseball and softball that credits a batter for making a play that allows a run to be scored (except in certain situations such as when an error is made on the play).
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Sacrifice bunt
In baseball, a sacrifice bunt (also called a sacrifice hit) is a batter's act of deliberately bunting the ball, before there are two outs, in a manner that allows a baserunner to advance to another base.
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Safety (gridiron football position)
Safety (S), historically known as a safetyman, is a position in gridiron football on the defense.
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San Francisco Chronicle
The San Francisco Chronicle is a newspaper serving primarily the San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California.
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Sandy Koufax
Sanford Koufax (né Braun; born December 30, 1935), nicknamed "the Left Arm of God", is an American former baseball pitcher who played 12 seasons in Major League Baseball for the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers from 1955 to 1966. Jackie Robinson and Sandy Koufax are Brooklyn Dodgers players, major League Baseball broadcasters, major League Baseball players with retired numbers, national Baseball Hall of Fame inductees, national League All-Stars and national League Most Valuable Player Award winners.
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Sanford, Florida
Sanford is a city and the county seat of Seminole County, Florida.
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Satchel Paige
Leroy Robert "Satchel" Paige (July 7, 1906 – June 8, 1982) was an American professional baseball pitcher who played in Negro league baseball and Major League Baseball (MLB). Jackie Robinson and Satchel Paige are 20th-century African-American sportspeople, Kansas City Monarchs players and national Baseball Hall of Fame inductees.
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Second baseman
In baseball and softball, second baseman, abbreviated 2B, is a fielding position in the infield, between second and first base.
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Second lieutenant
Second lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer military rank in many armed forces.
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Seymour, Connecticut
Seymour is a town located in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States.
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Sharecropping
Sharecropping is a legal arrangement in which a landowner allows a tenant (sharecropper) to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on that land.
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Shooting guard
The shooting guard (SG), also known as the two, two guard or off guard,Shooting guards are 6'3"–6'7".
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Shortstop
Shortstop, abbreviated SS, is the baseball or softball fielding position between second and third base, which is considered to be among the most demanding defensive positions.
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Shot Heard 'Round the World (baseball)
In baseball, the "Shot Heard 'Round the World" was a walk-off home run hit by New York Giants outfielder and third baseman Bobby Thomson off Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca at the Polo Grounds in New York City on October 3, 1951, to win the National League (NL) pennant.
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Single (baseball)
In baseball, a single is the most common type of base hit, accomplished through the act of a batter safely reaching first base by hitting a fair ball (thus becoming a runner) and getting to first base before a fielder puts him out.
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Slugging percentage
In baseball statistics, slugging percentage (SLG) is a measure of the batting productivity of a hitter.
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Soul of the Game
Soul of the Game (released as Field of Honour in the United Kingdom) is a 1996 television film about Negro league baseball.
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Southern United States
The Southern United States, sometimes Dixie, also referred to as the Southern States, the American South, the Southland, Dixieland, or simply the South, is a geographic and cultural region of the United States.
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Southwestern Athletic Conference
The Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) is a collegiate athletic conference headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, which is made up of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the Southern United States.
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Spingarn Medal
The Spingarn Medal is awarded annually by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) for an outstanding achievement by an African American.
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Sports Illustrated
Sports Illustrated (SI) is an American sports magazine first published in August 1954.
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Sports journalism
Sports journalism is a form of writing that reports on matters pertaining to sporting topics and competitions.
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Spring training
Spring training is the preseason in Major League Baseball (MLB), a series of practices and exhibition games preceding the start of the regular season.
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St. Louis Cardinals
The St.
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Stamford, Connecticut
Stamford is a city in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States, outside of New York City.
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Stanley Woodward (editor)
Rufus Stanley Woodward (June 5, 1895 – November 29, 1965) was an American newspaper editor and sportswriter.
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Statue of Jackie Robinson (Jersey City)
The statue of Jackie Robinson in Jersey City, New Jersey is located at Journal Square at the entrance to the Journal Square Transportation Center.
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Stealing Home (statue)
Stealing Home: The Point of No Return is a bronze statue of baseball great Jackie Robinson which was unveiled outside Dodger Stadium on April 15, 2017, the 70th anniversary of Robinson's breaking of the color barrier in Major League Baseball.
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Stolen base
In baseball, a stolen base occurs when a runner advances to a base unaided by other actions and the official scorer rules that the advance should be credited to the action of the runner.
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Strike action
Strike action, also called labor strike, labour strike and industrial action in British English, or simply strike, is a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to work.
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Strikeout
In baseball or softball, a strikeout (or strike-out) occurs when a batter accumulates three strikes during a time at bat.
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Susan Miller Dorsey High School
Susan Miller Dorsey High School, commonly referred to as Dorsey High School, is a secondary public school located in the Baldwin Hills area of Los Angeles, California.
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Tampa Bay Rays
The Tampa Bay Rays are an American professional baseball team based in the Tampa Bay area.
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Tanzania
Tanzania, officially the United Republic of Tanzania, (formerly Swahililand) is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region.
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Ted Williams
Theodore Samuel Williams (August 30, 1918 – July 5, 2002) was an American professional baseball player and manager. Jackie Robinson and Ted Williams are major League Baseball players with retired numbers, national Baseball Hall of Fame inductees and presidential Medal of Freedom recipients.
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Tennis
Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles).
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The Athletic
The Athletic is a subscription-based sports journalism website, and the sports department of The New York Times.
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The Atlantic
The Atlantic is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher.
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The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe, also known locally as the Globe, is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts.
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The California Museum
The California Museum is the state history museum of California, located in its capital city of Sacramento and housed within the Secretary of State building complex.
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The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson
The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson is a 1990 American drama film directed by Larry Peerce and written by L. Travis Clark, Steve Duncan, Clay Frohman and Dennis Lynton Clark.
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The First (musical)
The First is a musical with a book by critic Joel Siegel.
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The Gazette (Montreal)
The Gazette, also known as the Montreal Gazette, is a Canadian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper which is owned by Postmedia Network.
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The Greenville News
The Greenville News is a daily morning newspaper published in Greenville, South Carolina.
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The Jackie Robinson Story
The Jackie Robinson Story is a 1950 biographical film directed by Alfred E. Green (who had directed The Jolson Story, "one of the biggest hits of the 40s") and starring Jackie Robinson as himself.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The New Yorker
The New Yorker is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.
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The Pittsburgh Press
The Pittsburgh Press, formerly The Pittsburg Press and originally The Evening Penny Press, was a major afternoon daily newspaper published in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for over a century, from 1884 to 1992.
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The Seattle Times
The Seattle Times is an American daily newspaper based in Seattle, Washington.
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The Spokesman-Review
The Spokesman-Review is a daily broadsheet newspaper based in Spokane, Washington, the city's sole remaining daily publication.
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The Sporting News
The Sporting News is a website and former magazine publication owned by Sporting News Holdings, which is a U.S.-based sports media company formed in December 2020 by a private investor consortium.
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The Village Voice
The Village Voice is an American news and culture publication based in Greenwich Village, New York City, known for being the country's first alternative newsweekly.
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The Washington Post
The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.
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Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919), often referred to as Teddy or T.R., was an American politician, soldier, conservationist, historian, naturalist, explorer and writer who served as the 26th president of the United States from 1901 to 1909.
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Third baseman
A third baseman, abbreviated 3B, is the player in baseball or softball whose responsibility is to defend the area nearest to third base — the third of four bases a baserunner must touch in succession to score a run.
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Time (magazine)
Time (stylized in all caps as TIME) is an American news magazine based in New York City.
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Time 100: The Most Important People of the Century
Time 100: The Most Important People of the Century is a compilation of the 20th century's 100 most influential people, published in Time magazine across five issues in 1998 and 1999.
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Timeline of African-American firsts
African Americans are an ethnic group in the United States.
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TNT (American TV network)
TNT (originally an abbreviation for Turner Network Television) is an American basic cable television channel owned by the Warner Bros. Discovery Networks unit of Warner Bros. Discovery that launched on October 3, 1988.
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Track and field
Athletics (or track and field in the United States) is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills.
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Triple (baseball)
In baseball, a triple is the act of a batter safely reaching third base after hitting the ball, with neither the benefit of a fielder's misplay (see error) nor another runner being put out on a fielder's choice.
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Triple-A (baseball)
Triple-A (officially Class AAA) has been the highest level of play in Minor League Baseball in the United States since 1946.
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Truman Gibson
Truman Kella Gibson, Jr. (January 22, 1912 – December 23, 2005) was an African-American businessman, attorney, government advisor, and later influential boxing promoter who played a unique and unheralded role in the Civil Rights Movement, primarily as a member of the "Black Cabinet" of Presidents Franklin D. Jackie Robinson and Truman Gibson are activists for African-American civil rights.
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Tulsa World
The Tulsa World is an American daily newspaper.
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Turner Classic Movies
Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is an American movie-oriented pay-TV network owned by Warner Bros. Discovery.
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TV.com
TV.com was a website owned by Red Ventures that covered television series and episodes with a focus on English-language shows made or broadcast in Australia, Canada, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, the United States, and the United Kingdom.
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UCLA Bruins
The UCLA Bruins are the athletic teams that represent the University of California, Los Angeles.
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UCLA Bruins baseball
The UCLA Bruins baseball team is the varsity college baseball team of the University of California, Los Angeles.
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UCLA Bruins football
The UCLA Bruins football program represents the University of California, Los Angeles, in college football as members of the Big Ten Conference at the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) level.
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UCLA Bruins men's basketball
The UCLA Bruins men's basketball program represents the University of California, Los Angeles in the sport of men's basketball as a member of the Pac-12 Conference.
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UCLA Bruins men's basketball retired numbers
The men's college basketball program of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) was founded in 1920 and is known competitively as the UCLA Bruins.
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Uniform number (Major League Baseball)
In baseball, the uniform number is a number worn on the uniform of each player and coach.
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United States Army
The United States Army (USA) is the land service branch of the United States Armed Forces.
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United States House of Representatives
The United States House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, with the Senate being the upper chamber.
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United States Mint
The United States Mint is a bureau of the Department of the Treasury responsible for producing coinage for the United States to conduct its trade and commerce, as well as controlling the movement of bullion.
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United States Postal Service
The United States Postal Service (USPS), also known as the Post Office, U.S. Mail, or Postal Service, is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for providing postal service in the United States, its insular areas, and its associated states.
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United States Secretary of War
The secretary of war was a member of the U.S. president's Cabinet, beginning with George Washington's administration.
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University of California, Los Angeles
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California, United States.
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Upper Manhattan
Upper Manhattan is the most northern region of the New York City borough of Manhattan.
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USA Today
USA Today (often stylized in all caps) is an American daily middle-market newspaper and news broadcasting company.
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Variety (magazine)
Variety is an American magazine owned by Penske Media Corporation.
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Varsity letter
A varsity letter (or monogram) is an award earned in the United States for excellence in school activities.
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Varsity team
Varsity teams are sports teams that compete in university sports events.
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Vaudeville
Vaudeville is a theatrical genre of variety entertainment which began in France at the end of the 19th century.
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Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.
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Vin Scully
Vincent Edward Scully (November 29, 1927 – August 2, 2022) was an American sportscaster, best known for his broadcast work in Major League Baseball. Jackie Robinson and Vin Scully are major League Baseball broadcasters and presidential Medal of Freedom recipients.
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Wally Westlake
Waldon Thomas Westlake (November 8, 1920 – September 5, 2019) was a utility player in Major League Baseball who had a ten-year career from 1947 to 1956. Jackie Robinson and Wally Westlake are national League All-Stars.
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Walt Hazzard
Mahdi Abdul-Rahman (born Walter Raphael Hazzard Jr.; April 15, 1942 – November 18, 2011) was an American professional basketball player and college basketball coach. Jackie Robinson and Walt Hazzard are 20th-century African-American sportspeople and UCLA Bruins men's basketball players.
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Walter Alston
Walter Emmons Alston (December 1, 1911 – October 1, 1984), nicknamed "Smokey", was an American baseball manager in Major League Baseball who managed the Brooklyn / Los Angeles Dodgers from 1954 through 1976, signing 23 one-year contracts with the Regarded as one of the greatest managers in baseball history, Alston was known for his calm, reticent demeanor, for which he was sometimes referred to as "the Quiet Man." Born and raised in rural Ohio, Alston lettered in baseball and basketball at Miami University in Oxford. Jackie Robinson and Walter Alston are national Baseball Hall of Fame inductees.
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Walter O'Malley
Walter Francis O'Malley (October 9, 1903 – August 9, 1979) was an American sports executive who owned the Brooklyn / Los Angeles Dodgers team in Major League Baseball from 1950 to 1979. Jackie Robinson and Walter O'Malley are national Baseball Hall of Fame inductees.
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Warren Sandel
Warren Sandel (May 16, 1921 – June 12, 1993) was an American baseball player from 1938 to 1952.
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Washington Nationals
The Washington Nationals are an American professional baseball team based in Washington, D.C. The Nationals compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member of the National League (NL) East Division.
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Wayne Gretzky
Wayne Douglas Gretzky (born January 26, 1961) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player and former head coach.
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Wendell Smith (sportswriter)
John Wendell Smith (March 23, 1914 – November 26, 1972) was an American sportswriter and civil rights activist who was influential in the choice of Jackie Robinson's career as the first African American Major League Baseball player.
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William Morrow and Company
William Morrow and Company is an American publishing company founded by William Morrow in 1926.
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Woody Strode
Woodrow Wilson Woolwine Strode (July 25, 1914 – December 31, 1994) was an American athlete, actor, and author. Jackie Robinson and Woody Strode are 20th-century African-American sportspeople, African-American track and field athletes, track and field athletes from California and UCLA Bruins football players.
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World Series
The World Series is the annual championship series of Major League Baseball (MLB) in the United States and Canada.
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
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Yale School of Nursing
The Yale School of Nursing (YSN) is the nursing school of Yale University, located in West Haven, Connecticut.
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Yank, the Army Weekly
Yank, the Army Weekly was a weekly magazine published by the United States military during World War II.
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100 Greatest African Americans
100 Greatest African Americans is a biographical dictionary of one hundred historically great Black Americans (in alphabetical order; that is, they are not ranked), as assessed by Temple University professor Molefi Kete Asante in 2002.
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1936 Summer Olympics
The 1936 Summer Olympics (Olympische Sommerspiele 1936), officially the Games of the XI Olympiad (Spiele der XI.) and officially branded as Berlin 1936, was an international multi-sport event held from 1 to 16 August 1936 in Berlin, Germany.
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1939 UCLA Bruins football team
The 1939 UCLA Bruins football team was an American football team that represented the University of California, Los Angeles during the 1939 college football season.
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1940 UCLA Bruins football team
The 1940 UCLA Bruins football team represented the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in the 1940 college football season.
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1947 New York Yankees season
The 1947 New York Yankees season was the team's 45th season.
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1947 World Series
The 1947 World Series matched the New York Yankees against the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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1948 World Series
The 1948 World Series was the championship series in Major League Baseball for the 1948 season.
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1949 Major League Baseball All-Star Game
The 1949 Major League Baseball All-Star Game was the 16th annual midseason exhibition game for Major League Baseball all-stars between the American League (AL) and the National League (NL).
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1949 World Series
The 1949 World Series featured the New York Yankees and Brooklyn Dodgers, with the Yankees winning in five games for their second defeat of the Dodgers in three years, and the 12th championship in team history.
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1952 World Series
The 1952 World Series featured the 3-time defending champions New York Yankees beating the Brooklyn Dodgers in seven games.
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1953 World Series
The 1953 World Series was the championship series in Major League Baseball for the 1953 season.
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1954 Major League Baseball All-Star Game
The 1954 Major League Baseball All-Star Game was the 21st playing of the midsummer classic between the all-stars of the American League (AL) and National League (NL), the two leagues comprising Major League Baseball.
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1955 World Series
The 1955 World Series was the championship series to conclude the 1955 Major League Baseball (MLB) season.
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1956 World Series
The 1956 World Series of Major League Baseball was played between the New York Yankees of the American League and the defending champion Brooklyn Dodgers of the National League in October 1956.
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1960 United States presidential election
The 1960 United States presidential election was the 44th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 8, 1960.
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1962 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting
Elections to the Baseball Hall of Fame for 1962 followed a new system for even-number years.
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1964 United States presidential election
The 1964 United States presidential election was the 45th quadrennial presidential election.
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1968 United States presidential election
The 1968 United States presidential election was the 46th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 5, 1968.
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1972 World Series
The 1972 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1972 season.
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42 (film)
42 is a 2013 American biographical sports film about baseball player Jackie Robinson, the first black athlete to play in Major League Baseball (MLB) during the modern era.
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758th Tank Battalion (United States)
The 758th Tank Battalion was a tank battalion of the United States Army that served during World War II, later becoming the 1st Battalion, 64th Armor Regiment.
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761st Tank Battalion (United States)
The 761st Tank Battalion was an independent tank battalion of the United States Army during World War II.
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See also
John Muir High School alumni
- Anthony Miller (wide receiver, born 1965)
- Barry Berkus
- Calen Bullock
- Darrell Evans
- DeWayne Walker
- Jackie Robinson
- John Muir High School
- Johnnie Lynn
- Linetta Wilson
- Mary Akor
- Nahshon Dion
- Renee Tajima-Peña
- Reynolds Yater
- Richard Bell (American football)
- Richard Bellis
- Rod Sherman
- Stephen Bentley
Montreal Expos announcers
- Bobby Bragan
- Bobby Winkles
- Brett Dolan
- Claude Raymond
- Dave Van Horne
- Don Drysdale
- Duke Snider
- Elliott Price
- Gary Carter
- Jackie Robinson
- Jacques Doucet (sportscaster)
- Jean-Pierre Roy
- Jerry Trupiano
- Jim Fanning
- Jim Hughson
- Joe Block
- Ken Singleton
- List of Montreal Expos broadcasters
- Pee Wee Reese
- Rodger Brulotte
- Ron Reusch
- Roxy Bernstein
- Russ Taylor (baseball broadcaster)
- Tommy Hutton
New York State Athletic Commissioners
- Albert Berkowitz
- Bernard Kerik
- Bill Brown (boxing)
- C. B. Powell
- Eddie Eagan
- Edwin B. Dooley
- Edwin Torres (judge)
- Floyd Patterson
- Frank Dwyer
- Frank S. O'Neil
- Fred A. Wenck
- George E. Brower
- Herb Washington
- Jackie Robinson
- James A. Farley Jr.
- James Edward Sullivan
- James Farley
- James R. Price
- John J. Phelan (boxing)
- John M. Prenderville
- John R. Branca
- José Torres
- Julius Helfand
- Melvin Krulewitch
- Philip Stieg
- Randy Gordon (boxing)
- Raymond Kelly
- Robert K. Christenberry
- Tom Hoover (basketball)
- William Muldoon
Pasadena City Lancers baseball players
- Alan Wiggins
- Brandon Kintzler
- Darrell Evans
- Ed Plank
- George Throop (baseball)
- Herb Hippauf
- Irv Noren
- Jackie Robinson
- Joey Eischen
- John Andrews (baseball)
- Matt Young
- Shan Deniston
Pasadena City Lancers football players
- Al Hoisington
- Anthony Miller (wide receiver, born 1965)
- Charles Tuaau
- David Reed (American football)
- DeWayne Walker
- Donte Williams
- Ed Hervey
- Ed Plank
- Harvey Hyde
- Hasson Arbubakrr
- Jackie Robinson
- Jamal Brooks
- Jerome Harrison
- Jonathan Smith (running back)
- Kim Anderson (American football)
- Kirby Wilson
- Mike Connelly
- Nate Montana
- Ostell Miles
- Quinton Knight
- Ray Ethridge
- Saladin McCullough
- Shan Deniston
Pasadena City Lancers men's basketball players
- Bobby Wilson (basketball, born 1951)
- Damir Latović
- Eric McWilliams
- George Trapp
- Greg Griffin
- Irv Noren
- Jackie Robinson
- Jerry Tarkanian
- John Q. Trapp
- Michael Cooper
- Sam Robinson (basketball)
- Sam Williams (basketball, born 1959)
References
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