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<p>While Jackie Robinson's 1947 season with the Brooklyn Dodgers made him the first African American to play in the Major Leagues in the modern era, the rest of Major League Baseball was slow to integrate while its Minor League affiliates moved faster. The Pacific Coast League (PCL), a Minor League with its own social customs, practices, and racial history, and the only legitimate sports league on the West Coast, became one of the first leagues in any sport to completely desegregate all its team
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- Author
- Amy Essington
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press (Mare Nostrum)
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780803285736
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Sports, Anthropology, Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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