Brooklyn Dodgers Scrapbooks : scrapbooks, 1943-1950

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Brooklyn Dodgers Scrapbooks : scrapbooks, 1943-1950

Dodgers' seasons of 1943, 1944, 1945, 1949 and 1950, including a World Series. Series of newspaper articles covering the seasons. Items of note include: Volume 1- an article by Jackie Robinson "Telling His Story" in baseball. Branch Rickey explains his reasons for leaving Brooklyn. Life Magazine cover of Jackie Robinson. Reprint of Norman Rockwell's "The Umpires". Saturday Evening Post article: "The Truth About The Jackie Robinson Case". Volume 3-a two-page article on Ben Chapman by Arthur Mann. Volume 4-an article dated October 24, 1945 titled, "Royals sign Jackie Robinson, First Negro in Organized Ball".

scrapbook v. 1 1 scrapbook (384mm x 320mm x 64mm)scrapbook v. 2 1 scrapbook (370mm x 312mm x 43mm)scrapbook v. 3 1 scrapbook (371mm x 312mm x 33mm)scrapbook v. 4 1 scrapbook (370mm x 313mm x 35mm)

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Jack Roosevelt "Jackie" Robinson (January 31, 1919 – October 24, 1972) was an American professional baseball player who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball (MLB) in the modern era. Robinson broke the baseball color line when he started at first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947. When the Dodgers signed Robinson, they heralded the end of racial segregation in professional baseball that had relegated black players to the Negro leagues since the 1880s. R...

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