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Frank Robinson: Baseball player who struck out racism to become the major league's first black manager, The Independent
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Cleveland's Larry Doby was the 1st Black man to break the color barrier in the American League
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Mr. Robinson: Jackie Robinson was a radical – don't listen to the sanitized version of history, Timelines Magazine
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Frank White – Society for American Baseball Research
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Jackie Robinson was a radical – don't listen to the sanitized version of history
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Frank Robinson, First Black Manager of the MLB, Dies at 83