History: Jackie Robinson and Ben Chapman, 1947. Robinson broke the baseball color line when the Brooklyn Dodgers started him at first base on April 15, 1947, heralding the end of racial segregation in professional baseball that had relegated black players to the “Negro Leagues” since the 1880s. [1179 x 920]

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