seven-inch gash in his leg. Jackie received letters from people who threatened to kill him if he dared to step foot on the field with white players in the National League's southernmost cities, St. Louis and Cincinnati. There was even a sit-in at a South Carolina airport in retaliation to the forbidding of Jackie to sit with his teammates in an all-white section.
             "Thinking about the things that happened, I don't know any other ballplayer
             who could have done what he did. To be able to hit with
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