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Jackie Robinson: First Black Person To Play Baseball
Nathan Vriseno
5th Period

5/4/17

Rough Draft Jackie Robinson

Ok so Jackie Robinson was the first black person to play baseball.Jackie

Robinson is the Greatest influence on people and made great remarks. Jackie robinson

was one of the greatest baseball players that ever lived and he was one of my favorite

players Jackie Robinson in the movie was the greatest but now that he has gotten old

he has got less great. Over the years there's been people that beat his record’s .

But back to the movie in the first part he was playing a team back some other

country after a week the dodgers want him to play with them but the coach and the

team because he was black/racist and the game he played he got fail comments from

the
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