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Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth
Kenny Washington isn't a household name either.
It would have been interesting whether Jackie would be as celebrated if guys in other sports had integrated first. Who knows.
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Kenny Washington was first. A full year before Jackie Robinson.
Major League Baseball celebrates Robinson every year on April 15 -- the date in 1947 when he broke baseball's longstanding color barrier. But March 21 comes and goes every year without anyone pausing to remember that Washington broke the NFL's modern-era color barrier as a member of the Los Angeles Rams on that date in 1946 -- a full year before Robinson's milestone.
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