Premise: The color line in American baseball excluded players of Black African descent from Major League Baseball and its affiliated Minor Leagues until 1947 ( with a few notable exceptions in the 19th century before the line was firmly established ) . Jackie Robinson . The Dodgers , by signing Robinson , heralded the end of racial segregation in professional baseball that had relegated black players to the Negro leagues since the 1880s . Robinson also was the first black television analyst in MLB , and the first black vice president of a major American corporation , Chock full o'Nuts .
Hypothesis: Jackie Robinson was the first white player to win the National League Most Valuable Player Award.
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