Old Time Family Baseball

• 31st January 2011
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i12bent:

Birthday of another elegantier:

Jackie Robinson, the first African-American in baseball’s major league: Jan. 31, 1919 - 1972. Robinson played for the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1947 to 1956, during which the Dodgers appeared in six World Series, winning only the Subway Series in ‘55 against The Yankees…

Photographer: W. C. Greene. 1947 - National Baseball Hall of Fame

Caption: “Jackie Robinson wearing his Montreal uniform, stepping into the Brooklyn Dodgers’ clubhouse for the first time.”

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    Happy Birthday to sports icon Jackie Robinson!

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    Only Dodger I’ll bring myself to love.

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