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APR 15, 1947 NOV 1, 1948
Breaking the YMCA in Harlem
color barrier After concluding their barnstorming
tour, Jackie Robinson and Roy
After signing a contract five Campanella report for duty as JUL 12, 1949
days earlier, Jackie Robinson coaches and counselors in the All-Star Game
takes first base on Ebbets Boy’s Work Department of the
Field to play for the Brooklyn Harlem YMCA in New York City. Jackie Robinson is the National
Dodgers, becoming the first League’s starting second baseman
African American in modern in the MLB All-Star game, the first
baseball history to play for a At this time, many professional American to feature African-American players.
major league baseball team. athletes held jobs during baseball’s off- Other African Americans who played
season to support their families. Some players that year were his Dodgers teammates,
earned money doing “barnstorming” tours— catcher Roy Campanella and pitcher
teams of ballplayers traveling across the U.S., Don Newcombe, and the American
and sometimes Central America, playing League’s first African-American
exhibition games. player, Larry Doby, who played for
the Cleveland Indians.
OCT 4, 1946
Little World SEP 26, 1947
Series NOV 18, 1946 Rookie of the Year
The Montreal Royals win Jackie Jr. Sporting News awards Jackie
the Little World Series is born Robinson the first-ever “Rookie of
at the end of Jackie the Year Award,” which is renamed
Robinson’s debut year Jack Roosevelt the “Jackie Robinson Rookie of the
in professional baseball. Robinson, Jr., Year Award” in 1987.
the first child
of Rachel and
The Little World Series was the Jackie Robinson, By the end of his rookie year as a Brooklyn
championship game played Dodger, Jackie Robinson had 12 home
between the two best minor is born. runs, a .297 batting average, and led the
league baseball teams. league in steals, with 29. He distinguished
himself throughout his decade-long
career, with an impressive .311 career
batting average.
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