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Jackie Robinson 
 Overcoming his dejection, Robinson dutifully observed Thomson's feet to ensure he touched all the bases.
Jackie Robinson 
 Dodgers sportscaster Vin Scully later noted that the incident showed "how much of a competitor Robinson was."
Jackie Robinson 
 The Dodgers improved on their performance from the year before, winning the National League pennant before losing the 1952 World Series to the New York Yankees in seven games.
Jackie Robinson 
 That year, on the television show Youth Wants to Know, Robinson challenged the Yankees' general manager, George Weiss, on the racial record of his team.
Jackie Robinson 
 Sportswriter Dick Young, whom Robinson called a "bigot", said, "If there was one flaw in Jackie, it was the common one.
Jackie Robinson 
 Afterward, Robinson played at first, second, and third bases, shortstop, and in the outfield, with Jim Gilliam, another black player, taking over everyday second base duties.
Jackie Robinson 
 He led the Dodgers to another National League pennant (and another World Series loss to the Yankees, this time in six games).
Jackie Robinson 
 Contributions to the magazine included an article on golf course segregation by Robinson's old friend Joe Louis.
Jackie Robinson 
 Robinson also openly criticized segregated hotels and restaurants that served the Dodger organization.
Jackie Robinson 
 A number of these places integrated as a result, including the five-star Chase Park Hotel in St. Louis.
Jackie Robinson 
 The following autumn, Robinson won his only championship when the Dodgers beat the New York Yankees in the 1955 World Series.
Jackie Robinson 
 They did this because of his diminishing abilities and because Gilliam was established at second base.
Jackie Robinson 
 Robinson missed the game because manager Walter Alston decided to play Gilliam at second and Don Hoak at third base.
Jackie Robinson 
 That season, the Dodgers' Don Newcombe became the first black major league pitcher to win twenty games in a year.
Jackie Robinson 
 After the season, Robinson was traded by the Dodgers to the arch-rival New York Giants for Dick Littlefield and $35,000 cash.
Jackie Robinson 
 Unbeknownst to the Dodgers, Robinson had already agreed with the president of Chock full o'Nuts to quit baseball and become an executive with the company.
Jackie Robinson 
 His retirement decision was revealed through the magazine, instead of through the Dodgers organization.
Jackie Robinson 
 Robinson's major league debut brought an end to almost sixty years of segregation in professional baseball, known as the baseball color line.
Jackie Robinson 
 After World War II, several other forces were also leading the country toward increased equality for blacks.
Jackie Robinson 
 Robinson's breaking of the baseball color line and his professional success symbolized these bigger changes and showed that the fight for equality was more than simply a political matter.
Jackie Robinson 
 Martin Luther King, Jr. said that he was "a legend and a symbol in his own time", and that he "challenged the dark skies of intolerance and frustration."
Jackie Robinson 
 According to historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, Robinson's "efforts were a monumental step in the civil-rights revolution in America ... [His] accomplishments allowed black and white Americans to be more respectful and open to one another and more appreciative of everyone's abilities."
Jackie Robinson 
 Beginning his major league career at the somewhat older age of twenty-eight, he played only ten seasons.
Jackie Robinson 
 During his career, the Dodgers played in six World Series, and Robinson himself played in six All-Star Games.
Jackie Robinson 
 Robinson's career is generally considered to mark the beginning of the post–"long ball" era in baseball, in which a need for power-hitting was replaced with balanced offensive strategies that used footspeed to create runs through baserunning.
Jackie Robinson 
 He scored more than 100 runs in six of his ten seasons (averaging more than 110 runs from 1947 to 1953), had a .311 career batting average, a .409 career on-base percentage, a .474 slugging percentage, and had more walks than strikeouts (740 to 291).
Jackie Robinson 
 Robinson was one of only two players during the span of 1947–56 to have at least 125 steals while having a slugging percentage over .425 (Minnie Miñoso was the other).
Jackie Robinson 
 None of the steals of home were double steals (in which a player stealing home is helped by a player stealing another base at the same time).
Jackie Robinson 
 Historical statistical analysis indicates Robinson was an outstanding fielder throughout his ten years in the major leagues and at almost every position he played.
Jackie Robinson 
 After playing his rookie season at first base, Robinson spent most of his career as a second baseman.
Jackie Robinson 
 Toward the end of his career, he played about 2,000 innings at third base and about 1,175 innings in the outfield and did well at both.
Jackie Robinson 
 Robinson said about himself, "I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me ... all I ask is that you respect me as a human being."
Jackie Robinson 
 Later that year, after he complained about a lot of physical problems, his doctors diagnosed Robinson with diabetes.
Jackie Robinson 
 However, the quality of medicine at the time could not stop his body from falling apart because of the disease.
Jackie Robinson 
 In the first year he was able to be elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962, Robinson ask voters to think of only his on-field statistics and abilities.
Jackie Robinson 
 He was elected on the first ballot, becoming the first African-American inducted into the Cooperstown museum.
Jackie Robinson 
 On June 4, 1972, the Dodgers retired his uniform number, 42, along with those of Roy Campanella (39) and Sandy Koufax (32).
Jackie Robinson 
 Robinson always considered his business career as advancing the cause of African-Americans in business.
Jackie Robinson 
 Robinson also chaired the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's (NAACP) million-dollar Freedom Fund Drive in 1957.
Jackie Robinson 
 In 1964, he helped start, with Harlem businessman Dunbar McLaurin, Freedom National Bank – an African-American-owned and operated bank based in Harlem.
Jackie Robinson 
 In 1970, Robinson started the Jackie Robinson Construction Company to build housing for low-income families.
Jackie Robinson 
 But he held conservative thoughts on several issues, including the Vietnam War (he once wrote Martin Luther King, Jr. to defend the Johnson Administration's military policy).
Jackie Robinson 
 After supporting Richard Nixon in his 1960 presidential race against John F. Kennedy, Robinson later praised Kennedy for his views on civil rights.
Jackie Robinson 
 In 1964, Robinson became one of six national directors for Nelson Rockefeller's Republican presidential campaign.
Jackie Robinson 
 He later became special assistant for community affairs when Rockefeller was re-elected governor of New York in 1966.
Jackie Robinson 
 He accepted a plaque honoring the 25th anniversary of his MLB debut, but also said, "I'm going to be tremendously more pleased and more proud when I look at that third base coaching line one day and see a black face managing in baseball."
Jackie Robinson 
 After the 1974 season, the Cleveland Indians gave their coaching job to Frank Robinson (no relation), a Hall of Fame-bound player who would go on to coach three other teams.
Jackie Robinson 
 Despite the success of these two Robinsons and other black players, the number of African-American players in Major League Baseball has gone down since the 1970s.
Jackie Robinson 
 After Robinson's retirement from baseball, his wife, Rachel Robinson, went for a career in academic nursing.
Jackie Robinson 
 She became an assistant professor at the Yale School of Nursing and director of nursing at the Connecticut Mental Health Center.
Jackie Robinson 
 She and Jackie had three children: Jackie Robinson Jr. (born November 18, 1946), Sharon Robinson (born January 13, 1950), and David Robinson (born May 14, 1952).
Jackie Robinson 
 Robinson's funeral service on October 27, 1972, at New York City's Riverside Church had 2,500 people come.
Jackie Robinson 
 Tens of thousands of people lined the procession route that followed to Robinson's gravesite site at Cypress Hills Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York.
Jackie Robinson 
 After Robinson's death, his widow founded the Jackie Robinson Foundation, of which she remains an officer as of 2010.
Jackie Robinson 
 On April 15, 2008, she announced that in 2010 the foundation will be opening a museum about Jackie in Lower Manhattan.
Jackie Robinson 
 Robinson's daughter, Sharon, became a midwife, educator, director of educational programming for MLB, and the author of two books about her father.
Jackie Robinson 
 According to a poll conducted in 1947, Robinson was the second most popular man in the country, behind Bing Crosby.
Jackie Robinson 
 In 1999, he was named by Time magazine on its list of the 100 most important people of the 20th century.
Jackie Robinson 
 He was elected to the Major League Baseball All-Century Team as the top vote-getter among second basemen.
Jackie Robinson 
 Baseball writer Bill James, in The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract, ranked Robinson as the 32nd greatest player of all time based on his performance on the field.
Jackie Robinson 
 Robinson has also been honored by the United States Postal Service on three different postage stamps, in 1982, 1999, and 2000.
Jackie Robinson 
 Brookside Park, located next to the Rose Bowl, has a baseball field and stadium named Jackie Robinson Field.
Jackie Robinson 
 The city's Human Services Department owns the Jackie Robinson Center, a community outreach center that provides early diabetes detection and other services.
Jackie Robinson 
 In 1997, a $325,000 bronze sculpture by artists Ralph Helmick, Stu Schecter, and John Outterbridge showing oversized nine-foot busts of Robinson and his brother Mack was put up at Garfield Avenue, across from the main entrance of Pasadena City Hall.
Jackie Robinson 
 A granite footprint lists multiple donors to the commission project, which was organized by the Robinson Memorial Foundation and supported by members of the Robinson family.
Jackie Robinson 
 In 1987, both the National and American League Rookie of the Year Awards were renamed the "Jackie Robinson Award" in honor of the first to receive the award (Robinson's Major League Rookie of the Year Award in 1947 encompassed both leagues).
Jackie Robinson 
 The number was retired in ceremonies at Shea Stadium to mark the 50th anniversary of Robinson's first game with the Dodgers.
Jackie Robinson 
 A few players who wore number 42 as a salute to Robinson, such as the Mets' Butch Huskey and Boston's Mo Vaughn, were allowed to continue to use the number by means of a grandfather clause.
Jackie Robinson 
 The Yankees' Mariano Rivera is the last player in the major leagues to wear jersey number 42 on a regular basis.
Jackie Robinson 
 As an exception to the retired-number policy, MLB has recently begun honoring Robinson by allowing players to wear number 42 on April 15, Jackie Robinson Day.
Jackie Robinson 
 For the 60th anniversary of Robinson's major league debut, MLB invited players to wear the number 42 on Jackie Robinson Day in 2007.
Jackie Robinson 
 The gesture was originally the idea of outfielder Ken Griffey, Jr..  He asked for Rachel Robinson's permission to wear the number.
Jackie Robinson 
 After receiving her permission, Commissioner Bud Selig not only allowed Griffey to wear the number, but also gave an invitation to all major league teams to do the same.
Jackie Robinson 
 In the end, more than 200 players wore number 42, including everyone on the Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Mets, Houston Astros, Philadelphia Phillies, St. Louis Cardinals, Milwaukee Brewers, and Pittsburgh Pirates.
Jackie Robinson 
 The tribute was continued in 2008, when, during games on April 15, all members of the Mets, Cardinals, Washington Nationals, and Tampa Bay Rays wore Robinson's number 42.
Jackie Robinson 
 On June 25, 2008, MLB installed a new plaque for Robinson at the Baseball Hall of Fame commemorating his off-the-field impact on the game as well as his playing statistics.
Jackie Robinson 
 In 2009, all uniformed personnel (players, managers, coaches, and umpires) wore number 42 on April 15.
Jackie Robinson 
 At the November 2006 groundbreaking for a new ballpark for the New York Mets, Citi Field, it was announced that the main entrance, modeled on the one in Brooklyn's old Ebbets Field, would be called the Jackie Robinson Rotunda.
Jackie Robinson 
 Mets owner Fred Wilpon announced that, along with Citigroup and the Jackie Robinson Foundation, the Mets will create a Jackie Robinson Museum and Learning Center.
Jackie Robinson 
 It will be located at the headquarters of the Jackie Robinson Foundation at One Hudson Square in lower Manhattan.
Jackie Robinson 
 The main purpose of the museum will be to fund scholarships for "young people who live by and embody Jackie's ideals."
Jackie Robinson 
 In December 1956, the NAACP recognized him with the Spingarn Medal, which it awards annually for the highest achievement by an African-American.
Jackie Robinson 
 President Ronald Reagan awarded Robinson the Presidential Medal of Freedom on March 26, 1984 after Robinson's death.
Jackie Robinson 
 On March 2, 2005, President George W. Bush gave Robinson's widow the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest civilian award bestowed by Congress.
Jackie Robinson 
 On August 20, 2007, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and his wife, Maria Shriver, announced that Robinson was inducted into the California Hall of Fame, located at The California Museum for History, Women and the Arts in Sacramento.
Jackie Robinson 
 The UCLA Bruins baseball team plays in Jackie Robinson Stadium, which, because of the efforts of Jackie's brother Mack, features a memorial statue of Robinson by sculptor Richard H. Ellis.
Jackie Robinson 
 City Island Ballpark in Daytona Beach, Florida – the baseball field that became the Dodgers' spring training site in 1947 – was renamed Jackie Robinson Ballpark in 1989.
Jackie Robinson 
 In 1976, his home in Brooklyn, the Jackie Robinson House, was declared a National Historic Landmark.
Jackie Robinson 
 In 1997, the United States Mint issued a Jackie Robinson commemorative silver dollar, and five dollar gold coin.
Jackie Robinson 
 (*) Note: The sacrifice fly (SF) as its own category did not exist in Major League Baseball from 1940 through 1953.
Jackie Robinson 
 (**) Note: Also, the intentional walk (IBB) category only became its own category beginning in 1955.
Jackie Robinson 
 Any intentional walks issued to Robinson before that year would be listed in the walk (BB) category.
Jackie Robinson 
 BlackFivesBlog: Jackie Robinson, Pro Basketball Star : Materials on Robinson's career with the Los Angeles Red Devils
University of Michigan 
 The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (U of M, U-M, UM or simply Michigan) is a public university in the state of Michigan.
University of Michigan 
 The university was started in 1817 in Detroit, about 20 years before Michigan became a state, and moved to Ann Arbor in 1837.
University of Michigan 
 It is the state's oldest university and the main campus; there are two other campuses—the University of Michigan-Flint and the University of Michigan–Dearborn.
University of Michigan 
 The university is known around the world, its students being famous people such as U.S. President Gerald Ford, Supreme Court Justices, as well as many heads of states around the world.
University of Michigan 
 It is now ranked 18th in the world by "The Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings," and 21st by the Shanghai Jiao Tong University Institute for Higher Education rankings.
University of Michigan 
 In its last survey in 1995, the National Research Council ranked UM 3rd in the United States and is called one of the first eight Public Ivys.
University of Michigan 
 The university also has one of the largest research budgets or spending money of any American university and the largest number of living alumni or former students, at 460,000.
University of Michigan 
 The University of Michigan was started in Detroit in 1817 as the Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania, by the governor and judges of Michigan Territory.
University of Michigan 
 Ann Arbor had set aside 40 acres (16 ha) that it hoped would become the site for a new state capitol, but it gave this land to the university when Lansing was chosen as the state capital.
University of Michigan 
 The first classes in Ann Arbor were held in 1841, with six freshmen and a sophomore, taught by two professors or teachers.
University of Michigan 
 Women were first allowed in 1870, making UM the first major university to allow women to go to school.
University of Michigan 
 James B. Angell, was the university's president from 1871 to 1909, made UM's teachings include subjects such as dentistry, architecture, engineering, government, and medicine.
University of Michigan 
 From 1900 to 1920 many new buildings were built on campus, including buildings for the dental and pharmacy programs, a chemistry building, a building for the natural sciences, Hill Auditorium, large hospital and library buildings, and two residence halls.
University of Michigan 
 The university built up its reputation for research in 1920 by rebuilding the College of Engineering and making a group of 100 industrialists, or businessmen, to help guide research.
University of Michigan 
 The university became a favorite other choice for Jewish students from New York in the 1920s and 1930s when the Ivy League schools made a limit to the number of Jews to be admitted.
University of Michigan 
 Because of this, UM gained the nickname "Harvard of the West," which became commonly joked about in reverse after John F. Kennedy called himself "a graduate of the Michigan of the East, Harvard University" in a speech.
University of Michigan 
 In World War II, UM's research grew to include U.S. Navy projects like researching proximity fuzes, PT boats, and radar jamming.
University of Michigan 
 As the Cold War and the Space Race started, UM got many government grants for research and helped to create peacetime uses for nuclear energy.
University of Michigan 
 Now, much of that work, as well as research into other energy types, is done by the Memorial Phoenix Project.
University of Michigan 
 On October 14, 1960, Presidential candidate John F. Kennedy put out the idea of what became the Peace Corps on the steps of Michigan Union.
University of Michigan 
 On March 24, 1965, a group of UM faculty members and 3,000 students held the nation's first ever faculty-led "teach-in" to protest against American policy in Southeast Asia.
University of Michigan 
 Because of a series of sit-ins in 1966 by Voice–the campus political party of Students for a Democratic Society–UM's administration banned sit-ins.
University of Michigan 
 This led 1,500 students to have another one-hour sit-in the LSA Building, which then housed the administrative offices.
University of Michigan 
 Former UM student and important architect Alden B. Dow designed the current Fleming Administration Building, which was completed in 1968.
University of Michigan 
 The building's plans were drawn in the early 1960s, before student activism created a concern for safety.
University of Michigan 
 Nevertheless, the Fleming Building's narrow windows, all located above the first floor, and castle-like outside led to a campus rumor that it was made to be riot-proof.
University of Michigan 
 During the 1970s, large budget limits made it hard on the university's physical development; however, the 1980s saw a surge in money given to research in the social and physical sciences.
University of Michigan 
 At that time, the university's work in the anti-missile Strategic Defense Initiative and investments in South Africa caused anger on campus.
University of Michigan 
 During the 1980s and 1990s, the university used many resources to help rebuild its large hospital area and improve the academic buildings on the North Campus.
University of Michigan 
 The university has 26,083 undergraduate and 14,959 graduate students in 600 academic programs, and each year about 5,400 new students go to UM.
University of Michigan 
 98% of the university's class of 2006 had a high school GPA of 3.0 and higher, while the middle 50% of the class had a high school GPA of 3.60 to 3.90.
University of Michigan 
 The middle 50% of people applying had an SAT score of about 1920–2180 and an ACT score of 27–31, with AP credit given to over 3000 freshmen students.
University of Michigan 
 About 22% of newly undergraduates and 25% of all undergraduates are members of ethnic minority groups.
University of Michigan 
 About 65% of undergraduate students go to the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LS&A), while the College of Engineering has about 20%.
University of Michigan 
 The rest of the undergraduate students go to the smaller schools, including the School of Kinesiology, School of Nursing, the School of Natural Resources and Environment, and the School of Art and Design.
University of Michigan 
 Most graduate students go to the Rackham Graduate School, the College of Engineering, the Law School, the Ross School of Business, and the Medical School.
University of Michigan 
 The Medical School works with the University of Michigan Health System, which makes up the University's three hospitals, a lot of the outpatient clinics, and many places for medical care, research, and education.
University of Michigan 
 Other academic units are the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning and the Schools of Dentistry, Education, Information, Music, Theatre & Dance, Natural Resources and Environment, Public Health, and Social Work, of which Social Work has been ranked first by the U.S. News and World Report every year since 1994.
University of Michigan 
 The Ann Arbor campus is separated into four main areas: the North, Central, Medical, and South Campuses.
University of Michigan 
 There are more than 500 large buildings, with a more than 29 million square feet (664 acres or 2.69 km²).
University of Michigan 
 The Central and South Campuses are next to each other, while the North Campus area is separated from them by the Huron River.
University of Michigan 
 Because more than 70% of UM's 200 program's and schools were listed as some of the best in their areas, the school was made one of Richard Moll's Public Ivies.
Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary 
 Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (MBTS) is one of six official seminaries of the Southern Baptist Convention.
Chemical relaxer 
 A chemical relaxer is used to straighten hair or loosen tight curls by use of chemicals to break the disulphide bonds the hair.
Mountain Brook, Alabama 
 In 2005, Mountain Brook had a population of 20,821, and is on several lists of the United States' richest communities.
Mountain Brook, Alabama 
 Mountain Brook was created after an election was held on March 24, 1942, with 263 voting in favor of incorporation and 67 opposing.
Mountain Brook, Alabama 
 Mountain Brook was built around three villages: English Village, Mountain Brook Village, and Crestline Village.
Mountain Brook, Alabama 
 Mountain Brook is the hometown of Friends actress Courteney Cox and missing person Natalee Holloway.
Trilobite 
 Some moved over the sea floor as predators, scavengers, or filter feeders and some swam, feeding on plankton.
Trilobite 
 Their bodies were divided into three parts: the head (cephalon), the thorax (chest) made of up to 30 segments, and the tail (pygidium).
Trilobite 
 The world's largest trilobite, Isotelus rex, was found in 1998 by Canadian scientists on the shores of Hudson Bay.
Trilobite 
 This phylum includes the most successful (78%) of all animal life forms, including crabs, centipedes, spiders, shrimps and insects.
Trilobite 
 The trilobites, living in shallow seas, flourished as swimmers, crawlers and burrowers for some 350 million years.