The Negro League teams were started in the nineteen twenties to give black people a place to play baseball.

VOA: special.2009.04.05

Puerto Rico's warm island climate made it easy for the young boy to play baseball all year.

VOA: special.2010.04.11

Yes, sir, that's the plan. (CHUCKLES) Bella's gonna play baseball.

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She's just gonna play baseballwith my family. Baseball?

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So are the two sports stadiums where Baltimore's major-league baseball and football teams, the Orioles and the Ravens,play.

VOA: special.2011.03.07

Blacks were not permitted to play on professional baseball teams or in any other major league sport.

VOA: special.2009.04.05

There are twenty-one playgrounds for children as well as areas to play basketball,baseball, football and even chess.

VOA: special.2009.10.30

Jackie Roosevelt Robinson was the first black man to play in modern major league baseball.

VOA: special.2009.04.05

In nineteen forty-seven, Jackie Robinson became the first black to play modern major league baseball.

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So,he decided to play with the Negro Baseball League.

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Robinson wanted to play professional baseball.

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He would try to explain it this way when students asked for a top grade just for studying hard in chemistry class: What if a baseball player came to spring training and worked harder than all the others, but still could not play well.

VOA: special.2009.03.12