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Fans at Kansas City Monarchs game, Muehlebach Field,

                                       Kansas City, MO, undated.

                         Courtesy of the American Jazz Museum

















                                                                                                                               Negro League American All Stars Team Photograph, 1945.
                                                                                                                             Gift of Scott Stimell, Jackie Robinson Museum Collection


                                                                                                                             After signing his contract with Montreal, Jackie left for a
                                                                                                                          twenty-four-game barnstorming tour of Venezuela with a team

                                                                                                                                  of Negro League greats that included Roy Campanella,

                                                                                                                                                     Buck Leonard, and Sam Jethroe.
        14     Jack Roosevelt Robinson: Athlete
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