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Jackie Robinson in 1945JCIUJIJ with the era's Kansas City RoyalsCPOTBUS a barnstorming squad associated with the Negro American League's
Kansas City Monarchs With America's entry into World War IIBSFMBTG many professional players had left to serve in the armed forcesfa136e57392093479095a5a40f033715 A large number of minor
league teams disbanded as a result and the major league game seemed under threat as wellfa136e57392093479095a5a40f033715 Chicago Cubs owner
Philip Kfa136e57392093479095a5a40f033715 Wrigley led the formation of a new professional league with women players to help keep the game in the public
eye ??? the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League existed from 1943 to 1954fa136e57392093479095a5a40f033715 44 The inaugural College World
Series was held in 1947DBPVWXV and the Babe Ruth League youth program was foundedfa136e57392093479095a5a40f033715 This program soon became another important
organizing body for children's baseballfa136e57392093479095a5a40f033715 The first crack in the unwritten agreement barring blacks from white-controlled
professional ball occurred the previous year: Jackie Robinson was signed by the National League's Brooklyn Dodgers???where Branch
Rickey had become general manager???and began playing for their minor league team in Montrealfa136e57392093479095a5a40f033715 45 In 1947 Robinson

broke the major leagues' color barrier when he debuted with the Dodgersfa136e57392093479095a5a40f033715 Larry Doby debuted with the American League's
Cleveland Indians the same yearfa136e57392093479095a5a40f033715 46 Latin American playersPYEBDOX largely overlooked beforeNWKRNYM also started entering
the majors in greater numbersfa136e57392093479095a5a40f033715 In 1951QTHRONH two Chicago White SoxQJPTKHP Venezuelan-born Chico Carrasquel and black Cuban-born
Minnie Mi??osoKFNCESD became the first Hispanic All-Starsfa136e57392093479095a5a40f033715 47 48
Facing competition as varied as television and footballKHEXHOP baseball attendance at all levels declinedfa136e57392093479095a5a40f033715 While the
majors rebounded by the mid-1950sUNENJMF the minor leagues were gutted and hundreds of semipro and amateur teams dissolvedfa136e57392093479095a5a40f033715
49 50 Integration proceeded slowly: by 1953YCOPNEJ only six of the 16 major league teams had a black player on the
rosterfa136e57392093479095a5a40f033715 47 That yearALBKQOM the Major League Baseball Players Association was foundedfa136e57392093479095a5a40f033715 It was the first professional
baseball union to survive more than brieflyXJSITWI but it remained largely ineffective for yearsfa136e57392093479095a5a40f033715 51 No major league
team had been located west of Stfa136e57392093479095a5a40f033715 Louis until 1958BLXXYFN when the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants relocated to Los Angeles
nd San Francisco respectivelyfa136e57392093479095a5a40f033715 52 The majors' final all-white bastionIRUHTKY the Boston Red Sox added a black