File:Jackie Robinson, Brooklyn Dodgers, 1954.jpg

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Description

English: Jackie Robinson of the Brooklyn Dodgers, posed and ready to swing

Español: Jackie Robinson (1919-1972), beisbolista de los Brooklyn Dodgers.

Polski: Jackie Robinson (1919–1972), baseballista Brooklyn Dodgers, pierwszy Afroamerykanin, który zagrał w amerykańskiej Major League Baseball.

Português: Jackie Robinson, o primeiro afro-americano a ingressar na Liga Principal de Beisebol dos Estados Unidos.

Čeština: Jackie Robinson (1919-1972) byl první afroameričan, který hrál v nejvyšší a plně profesionální baseballové americké lize Major League Baseball.

Magyar: Jackie Robinson (1919–1972), az első modern kori afroamerikai játékos a Major League Baseballban

Italiano: Jackie Robinson fu il primo afroamericano a giocare nella Major League Baseball in epoca moderna.

Македонски: Џеки Робинсон (1919-1972) — првиот Афроамериканец во Главната бејзболска лига. Дал значаен придонес за Движењето за граѓански права на Црнците во САД.

Nederlands: Jackie Robinson (1919-1972) was in 1947 de eerste Afro-Amerikaanse honkballer in de Major League Baseball sinds de MLB in 1884 een ban op gekleurde mensen instelde. Robinson speelde het grootste deel van zijn carrière voor de Brooklyn Dodgers en leverde een belangrijke bijdrage aan het opheffen van de rassensegregatie.

Date

Created/Published 1954

Source

This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division
under the digital ID ppmsc.00048.
This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing.

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Author

Photo by Bob Sandberg, Look photographer
Restoration by Adam Cuerden

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	This is a featured picture on Wikimedia Commons (Featured pictures) and is considered one of the finest images. See its nomination here. This is a featured picture on the English language Wikipedia (Featured pictures) and is considered one of the finest images. See its nomination here. If you have an image of similar quality that can be published under a suitable copyright license, be sure to upload it, tag it, and nominate it.


	This is a featured picture on the Hebrew language Wikipedia (תמונות מומלצות) and is considered one of the finest images. See its nomination here. If you think this file should be featured on Wikimedia Commons as well, feel free to nominate it. If you have an image of similar quality that can be published under a suitable copyright license, be sure to upload it, tag it, and nominate it.

This image was selected as picture of the day on Wikimedia Commons for 7 February 2017. It was captioned as follows:

English: Jackie Robinson (1919–1972) was the first African American to play in Major League Baseball in the modern era. While playing most of his remarkable professional career for the Brooklyn Dodgers, he challenged the traditional basis of segregation and contributed significantly to the Civil Rights Movement.

Other languages:

Čeština: Jackie Robinson (1919-1972) byl první afroameričan, který hrál v nejvyšší a plně profesionální baseballové americké lize Major League Baseball.

English: Jackie Robinson (1919–1972) was the first African American to play in Major League Baseball in the modern era. While playing most of his remarkable professional career for the Brooklyn Dodgers, he challenged the traditional basis of segregation and contributed significantly to the Civil Rights Movement.

Español: Jackie Robinson (1919-1972) fue el primer beisbolista afroamericano en ingresar a las Ligas Mayores de Béisbol en los Estados Unidos. Jugó la mayor parte de su carrera profesional para los Brooklyn Dodgers. Además de su destacada carrera como jugador, realizó una firme actividad política y comunitaria por la igualdad de derechos y la lucha contra la discriminación.

Italiano: Jackie Robinson fu il primo afroamericano a giocare nella Major League Baseball in epoca moderna.

Magyar: Jackie Robinson (1919–1972), az első modern kori afroamerikai játékos a Major League Baseballban

Nederlands: Jackie Robinson (1919-1972) was in 1947 de eerste Afro-Amerikaanse honkballer in de Major League Baseball sinds de MLB in 1884 een ban op gekleurde mensen instelde. Robinson speelde het grootste deel van zijn carrière voor de Brooklyn Dodgers en leverde een belangrijke bijdrage aan het opheffen van de rassensegregatie.

Polski: Jackie Robinson (1919–1972), pierwszy Afroamerykanin, który zagrał w amerykańskiej Major League Baseball. Podczas swojej niezwykłej kariery sportowej, przez większość której grał w Brooklyn Dodgers, kwestionował tradycyjne podstawy segregacji rasowej i wniósł znaczący wkład do ruchu na rzecz praw obywatelskich.

Português: Jackie Robinson, o primeiro afro-americano a ingressar na Liga Principal de Beisebol dos Estados Unidos.

Македонски: Џеки Робинсон (1919-1972) — првиот Афроамериканец во Главната бејзболска лига. Дал значаен придонес за Движењето за граѓански права на Црнците во САД.

Licensing

This work has been released into the public domain by its copyright holder, Cowles Communications, Inc.. This applies worldwide.
In some countries this may not be legally possible; if so:
Cowles Communications, Inc. grants anyone the right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law.

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This is a photo taken by Bob Sandberg when working as a staff photographer of LOOK Magazine, and is part of the LOOK Magazine Photograph Collection at the Library of Congress. Their former owner, Cowles Communications, Inc, dedicated to the public all rights it owned to these images as an instrument of gift.

Note: Cowles has expressed its desire that these images not be used for "trade or advertising purposes". However, this request cannot be meant as a legally binding copyright restriction on their re-use, as all the rights to this image were released; rather, it is a caution against the use of celebrity images to imply product endorsement, drawn from civil rights law, and is unrelated to copyright. See {{Personality rights}}.

This image's photographer, Robert Sandberg, was a 32-year veteran of LOOK magazine.

File history

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	08:52, 27 January 2016	3,234 × 4,146 (5.01 MB)	Adam Cuerden	c:User:Rillke/bigChunkedUpload.js: was a little bit of a ring effect in the sky between the bat and cap. Weird, hopefully gone now.
	08:48, 27 January 2016	3,234 × 4,146 (5.01 MB)	Adam Cuerden	c:User:Rillke/bigChunkedUpload.js: Crop some sky, additional restoration. For the record, this is a fresh restoration - would have used Scewing's, but I don't like repeatedly saving JPEGs.
	01:29, 27 January 2016	3,234 × 4,626 (5.58 MB)	Adam Cuerden	c:User:Rillke/bigChunkedUpload.js:
	23:59, 13 April 2014	3,234 × 4,312 (2.15 MB)	Scewing	tweak left border
	23:54, 13 April 2014	3,234 × 4,312 (2.14 MB)	Scewing	cropped, adjusted levels, removed minor artifacts
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