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  1. 📜 This Day in History – September 24, 1957
    The Brooklyn Dodgers played their final game at Ebbets Field.

    Before they left, a man changed history on that diamond.

    🎩 Ode to Jackie Robinson:

    Jackie—number 42—
    you bore the weight no one else knew.
    You cracked the myth, exposed the lie.
    You turned a diamond to sacred sky.

    #ThisDayInHistory #JackieRobinson #EbbetsField #BrooklynDodgers #BaseballPoetry #EshuElegbara

  2. 𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔 𝗣𝗜𝗖𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗔𝗬

    ✧ Happy Chandler ✧

    Happy Chandler (July 14, 1898 – June 15, 1991) was an American politician who served as the 44th governor of Kentucky from 1935 to 1939, a member of the U.S. Senate, and again as the 49th governor of Kentucky from 1955 to 1959. In his first term as governor, he oversaw the repeal of the sales tax, replacing the lost ...

    #Kentucky #MajorLeagueBaseball #Senate #PacificWar #BrooklynDodgers #Wikipedia
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Ch