Never mind if Jackie Robinson, in his brief 10-year Major League Baseball career, failed to even approximate the number of home runs the great Babe Ruth hit in that span. Nor how many bases he stole. How many consecutive games he played. How many championships his team won.

Robinson retired at the start of the 1957 season, a decade after his name appeared in the starting lineup of the Brooklyn Dodgers on the opening day of the 1947 baseball season, making him the first African-American to play in the major leagues after nearly 70 years of discrimination and prejudice.

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