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Pasadena Buicks Baseball Team with ten-year-old
Jackie Robinson as bat boy, 1929.
Courtesy of the Pasadena Public Library
The semi-pro Pasadena Buicks team manager Carl Del Porto
(kneeling, far left), asked Jack if he wanted to be the team
bat boy after discovering him hanging around the ball field.
Jack Roosevelt Robinson: Athlete 3
