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FILE - In this March 6, 1948, file photo, Jackie Robinson, first baseman of the Brooklyn Dodgers, returns an autograph book to a fan in the stands, during the Dodgers' spring training in Ciudad Trujillo, now Santo Domingo, in the Dominican Republic. Baseball holds tributes across the country on Jackie Robinson Day, Tuesday, April 15, 2014, the 67th anniversary marking the end of the game's racial barrier. (AP Photo/File)
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FILE - In this 1952 file photo, Brooklyn Dodgers baseball player Jackie Robinson poses. Baseball holds tributes across the country on Jackie Robinson Day, Tuesday, April 15, 2014, the 67th anniversary marking the end of the game's racial barrier. (AP Photo/File) **FILE**
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FILE - In this June 30, 1971, file photo, Jackie Robinson poses at his home in Stamford, Conn. Baseball holds tributes across the country on Jackie Robinson Day, Tuesday, April 15, 2014, the 67th anniversary marking the end of the game's racial barrier. (AP Photo/File)
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In this photo made on Monday, March 17, 2014, Louise Lippincott, the Curator of Fine Arts at the Carnegie Museum of Art, shows two photographs made by Charles "Teenie" Harris at the museum in Pittsburgh. The top photo shows Jackie Robinson, left, talking with baseball executive Branch Rickey in 1957. The bottom shows members of Pittsburgh's Terrace Village baseball team in 1956, the first integrated sandlot team in the area. The museum is hosting an exhibit of photographs by Harris that opened on March 22 and runs through Sept. 22, 2014. It features a collection of Harris' work highlighting the golden years of Negro League baseball. The show features images of greats such as Jackie Robinson, Josh Gibson and documents the desegregation of local sandlot teams. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
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In this photo made on Monday, March 17, 2014, Louise Lippincott, the Curator of Fine Arts at the Carnegie Museum of Art, shows some of the photographs made by Charles "Teenie" Harris in one of the preparation rooms at the museum in Pittsburgh. Harris made the image of Jackie Robinson in the foreground at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh in 1947. The museum is hosting an exhibit of photographs by Harris that opened on March 22 and runs through Sept. 22, 2014. It features a collection of Harris' work highlighting the golden years of Negro League baseball. The show features images of greats such as Jackie Robinson, Josh Gibson and documents the desegregation of local sandlot teams. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
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Members of the St. Louis Cardinals line up for a moment of silence following an explosion at the Boston Marathon, all wearing the No. 42 in honor of Jackie Robinson, before a baseball game against the Pittsburgh Pirates in Pittsburgh Monday, April 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
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Washington Nationals outfielder Bryce Harper, pictured here with Thomas Tull, one of the producers of '42,' attended a reception at the White House on Tuesday to meet President Obama and screen the move, which is about Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier in baseball. (Alba V. Tull photo)
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First lady Michelle Obama (right) — next to Rachel Robinson, the widow of baseball legend Jackie Robinson — introduces a panel of the cast and crew of the movie "42" before a workshop for high school and college students on Tuesday, April 2, 2013, in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
