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Jackie Robinson's birthday earlier this week reminds us of a cool fall evening — Aug. 28, 1945 — when the 26-year-old former Army Lieutenant who had been court marshalled for refusing orders to sit in the back of an Army bus, walked to 215 Sukeforth St. in Brooklyn, the office of the general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team, Mr. Branch Rickey. At that meeting Mr. Rickey informed the young man, Jack Roosevelt Robinson, that he was being offered a contract to play in the major leagues — the first black man in hi...
