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| Eleven years before Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat, he was court-martialed for a similar offense while in the army. He was acquitted and discharged before spending several years playing baseball for the Kansas City Monarchs in the Negro Leagues. He was elected into the Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility, a decade after he started in the Major League. Nine days before his death in October of 1972, he threw the first pitch in the World Series, twenty-five years after Major League Baseball was integrated. Who Could It Be?
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