Answer:
1. At forty-three years old, Jackie had been retired from the Brooklyn Dodgers for five years. Yet, the crowd cheered as loudly as if he’d just hit a World Series home run.
2. Jackie’s mother, wife, and children were there. So was branch Rickey; he had hired Jackie. And, many people who didn’t know Jackie had also traveled long distances to see him become introduced into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
3. Jackie Robinson was black in 1947 when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers. He was the first and only African American on the team.
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