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Everything else in america life, was completely shut off to african-american players. and then came jack roosevelt robinson. on april 15th, 1947, he stepped on the everett field for the first time in a brooklyn dodgers uniform and changed a nation. in 1951, jackie played a game in cincinnati after receiving a death threat. two letters received said he would be killed on the field. he was spit on by catchers and he endure racial slurs. he described what it was like to play in one city, philadelphia. and when you went to philadelphia in the early years, you couldn t stay in the same hotel, you had to find your own accommodations and then there was ben chapman and some of the other phillies that were really ....

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