A page in the June 1948 edition of Dodgers Line Drives, the newsletter for the Brooklyn Dodgers to communicate with their fans, displays autographs of all the team's players including Jackie Robinson, who in 1947 became the first African American to cross the major league color line and begin integrating the game.

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