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Jackie Robinson signed with Dodgers organization and played in Montreal (a minor league) in 1946. Brooklyn (majors) in 1947.
Officially Negro players were never officially "banned" from major leagues (or minor league) baseball. They just never found anyone good enough - their words not mine.. Anyway, wording aside, after Fleetwood Walker in 1884 (American Association Toledo - a major league level.) no one was given a contract to play in the MLB/minor league system until Jackie Robinson.
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"This is my opening farewell " - Jackson Browne
“They make a desolation and call it peace.” ― Agha Shahid Ali
"Maybe she just has to sing, for the sake of the song - And who do I think that I am to decide that she's wrong." - Townes Van Zandt
"I saw a young man leaning on his wooden crutch - He called out to me, 'Don't ask for so much' And a young woman leaning in her darkened door She cried out to me, 'Why not ask for more?' " - Leonard Cohen
"Hello darkness, my old Friend ...." - Paul Simon
Before Mays, before DiMaggio, there was Oscar Charleston.
"All the lies about Babe Ruth are true." - Waite Hoyt
Avatar is the late great Townes Van Zandt. rip.
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