Canadian baseball great Ferguson Jenkins recalls the influence of Jackie Robinson

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News; Sports; Baseball

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When Ferguson Jenkins stepped off the plane in Little Rock, Ark., in 1963, about to begin his first minor-league season in the American south, the Chatham, Ont., native knew he wasn’t going to receive a king’s welcome. Jackie Robinson had broken Major League Baseball’s colour barrier some 16 years previous, but that was in Brooklyn. This was Little Rock, where five years earlier the local government had decided to close all public schools rather than integrate black students.

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Brendan Kennedy

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https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/movies/2013/04/11/canadian_baseball_great_ferguson_jenkins_recalls_the_influence_of_jackie_robinson.html

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thestar.com

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