How the Debut Was Covered
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How some media covered Jackie Robinson’s debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947:
It has been said quite often of Pete Reiser, and by no less a person than Branch Rickey, that the kid is somewhat of a “hypo,” meaning hypochondriac. Maybe so, but to the Brooks he’s a hypo, meaning stimulant, and he wasted no time proving it again this season by breaking the Brooks on top of the NL pack with a masterful one-man show in yesterday’s 5-3 opening-day victory over the Braves.
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In his debut, Jackie Robinson, the majors’ most-discussed rookie, fielded flawlessly at first base but went hitless in three official trips to the plate. He rolled out to third in the first, lofted a soft fly to left in the third, rifled a hot double-play grounder to short to close out the fifth, and then scored the winning tally on Reiser’s seventh-inning double, after reaching on a sacrifice-error by the Braves’ rookie counterpart--Earl Torgeson.
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