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Jackie Robinson
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  • At that moment, like a fleet-footed Jackie Robinson, Fidel was off to "steal" home.†   (source)
  • He loved the Brooklyn Dodgers-Don Newcombe, Roy Campanella, and Jackie Robinson, especially Jackie Robinson.†   (source)
  • I used to have a photo of Jackie Robinson hanging in my office, and it saddened me that so many students couldn't identify him, or knew little about him.†   (source)
  • What you talking about Jackie Robinson.†   (source)
  • Now, while I stood there listening to the old men in their praise of Jackie Robinson, I remembered something else.†   (source)
  • He never lived to see his dreams fulfilled, but when I thumb through his old brown briefcase filled with his paperwork from forty-five years ago, the notes and papers he left behind reveal a man in constant thought: references to Dostoyevsky, Faulkner, Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Jackie Robinson, and notebooks upon notebooks filled with sermons and Bible verses.†   (source)
  • And I wondered if the one in that cell uptown would call on Jackie Robinson as the other one had called on Joe Louis.†   (source)
  • Jackie Robinson wasn't nobody.†   (source)
  • In 1947, JACKIE ROBINSON pioneered the integration of American professional athletics by becoming the first black player in major-league baseball.†   (source)
  • These were heard alongside an astonishing array of famous names, including ex-presidents Hoover and Truman, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, popular actors such as Dick Powell and Barbara Stanwyck, sports figures such as baseball Hall of Famers Bobby Doerr and Jackie Robinson, literary giants such as Thomas Mann and Carl Sandburg, and a slew of Nobel laureates, including Albert Einstein.†   (source)
  • Like Jackie Robinson?†   (source)
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