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Jackie's First MLB Spring Training Game

Daytona Beach, Florida
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In Jack Roosevelt Robinson's recollection of his first Major League Baseball spring training game, he returned home feeling he had won a kind of victory. In Daytona Beach, he came away with a new opinion of the people in the town, believing that although not everyone was hoping he would succeed, the whole world was not lined up against him. As he went to sleep, the applause was still ringing in his ears.
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