Jackie Robinson, 1954

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Jackie Robinson of the Brooklyn Dodgers, posed and ready to swing. In 1954 at the age of thirty-five, he became the first National Leaguer in nearly twenty-six years to steal his way around the bases.

Courtesy of Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Look Magazine Photograph Collection, #LC-L9-54-3566-O, #17.

Jackie Robinson, 1954

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