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Barry Sanders Played his college carrer at Oklahoma State University. After spending his first few years there on the bench behind Thurman Thomas Barry broke out out in 1987 and 1988 breaking a handfull of college footballs most prestgiuos records. In 1988 Barry won college footballs higest honor the Heisman Trophy. In the Spring of 1989 Barry was drafted 4th overall by the Detroit Lions. Barry went on to become one of the Greatest running backs in NFL history. He won a number of rushing titles, and in1197 was leauge MVP and reached over 2,000 rushing yards in one season for only the 5th time in history. Barry's carrer was great but shorth lived when he retired after the 1998 season becuase of lack of wiining in the Lions organization.

Jackie Robinson
Jackie Robison is without a doubt one of the most influential Americans of all time. Yes it’s true Mr. Robinson was one of the greatest and most famous baseball players of all time but his story really goes so much more deeper than that. Mr. Robinson’s debut on April 15, 1947 as gone down as one of the most important dates in history when he joined major league baseball as the first black player helped break down color barriers all over the country.

Born on January 31, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia Mr. Robinson had to deal with racial issues right away living in the confederated filled Georgia. Once Mr. Robinson was ready to move onto college he was ready to get out of Georgia, he moved out to California to become a four sport star at University of Southern California.

On Aril 15th, 1947 Mr. Robinson joined the L.A. Dodgers after he promised part owners of the Dodgers Branch Rickey and Walter O’Malley that if he did decided to cross the color line in Major League Baseball he would not fight back against fans, umpires, other players, or the media for racial comments and slurs. Dealing with things such as racial slurs, sitting in the back of the bus, signing autographs for hours on end, and other white players trying to injure him on the field Mr. Robins stood tall and did not break.

His first year was a successful one winning the National League’s Rookie of the Year award. Mr. Robinson played for the Dodgers for 10 years, 6 of which he was in N.L. All Star, he was also the N.L. MVP in 1949, won a batting title in 1949, he also helped the Dodgers win 6 N.L pennants the 10 years he was there.

Mr. Robinson was inducted into the MLB Hall of Fame in 1965 after he retired from the game in 1957. Not only did Mr. Robinson lead the way for all future minority athletes in all sports. He also showed the entire country that African Americans were jest as capable as the white man to succeed in this world. Mr. Robinson had such an impact on MLB that his number “42” was retired to all of baseball on March 2, 2005, the only player in history to receive this honor. Mr. Robinson is a great American Hero and his name needs to be mentioned among the greats such as Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr.

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