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apr 15 Learn More Jackie Robinson Joins Major League Baseball
On this day in 1947, Jackie Robinson became the first African American athlete to play for a major pro sports team. When he retired from baseball nine years later, he took a job as the vice-president of personnel for Chock Full O' Nuts coffee, becoming the first African American vice-president of a major American corporation. Later in life, he began broadcasting for ABC's Game of the Week, becoming the first African American TV sports analyst. "First" was practically Jackie Robinson's middle name—except that his middle name was actually Roosevelt, as in President Theodore Roosevelt, who died less than a month before Jackie was born.
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