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Major League Baseball’s annual Jackie Robinson Day will be tomorrow, commemorating Robinson’s debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers back in 1947 that broke the sport’s color barrier. The end of Baseball’s segregation came at a great cost to those who chose the risks, but we’re all better off for it. Baseball got better on the way to showing some persuadable Americans that the irrational fears in their mind were exactly that.
But it took a lot of time.