(ThyBlackMan.com) In 1947, legendary baseball star and Hall of Famer Jackie Robinson, broke the color barrier, becoming the first Black athlete to play in Major League Baseball in the modern era when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers. Before that, he and his fellow Black athletes were relegated to the Negro leagues, at the time, a lesser known league but that had superstars and an overall grueling competition that rivaled, if not exceeded the Major League’s at the time. When Robinson joined the MLB, he faced all kinds of racist acts, from verbal abuse and threats, like when Phillies manager, Ben
