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== Career ==
== Career ==
Robinson was voted baseball's Rookie of the Year in 1947, and the National League Most Valuable Player in 1949. He was selected for the National League All-Star team six consecutive seasons (1949-54 ) and playedin the World Series in 1947, 1949, 1952, 1953, 1955, and 1956. Robinson was elected to the [[Baseball Hall of Fame]] in 1962, receiving 124 of a possible 160 votes.
Robinson was voted baseball's Rookie of the Year in 1947, and the National League Most Valuable Player in 1949. He was selected for the National League All-Star team six consecutive seasons (1949-54 ) and playedin the World Series in 1947, 1949, 1952, 1953, 1955, and 1956. Robinson was elected to the [[Baseball Hall of Fame]] in 1962, receiving 124 of a possible 160 votes.
==Political views==
Robinson was a registered Independent, but he described himself as a "Rockefeller Republican."<ref name="long">Long, Michael G., ed (2007). ''First Class Citizenship: the Civil Rights Letters of Jackie Robinson''. Henry Holt. ISBN 0805087109.</ref> He held conservative opinions on several issues, including the [[Vietnam War]], once writing to [[Martin Luther King, Jr.]] to defend how [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] was handling the war).<ref name="long"/> Though he supported [[Richard Nixon]] in the 1960 presidential race against [[John F. Kennedy]], he supported [[Hubert Humphrey]] against Nixon in 1968.<ref name="long"/> In 1964, Robinson became one of six national directors for [[Nelson Rockefeller]]'s Republican presidential campaign. Robinson served as special assistant for community affairs when Rockefeller's 1966 re-election as governor of [[New York]].<ref name="loc">[http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/robinson/jr1957.html Robinson's Later Career: 1957-1972.] in Baseball, the Color Line, and Jackie Robinson, via [[Library of Congress]]</ref>
==References==
==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.jackierobinson.com/ Jackie Robinson estate official website]
*[http://www.jackierobinson.org/ Jackie Robinson Foundation official website]
*[http://www.baseballhalloffame.org/hofers/detail.jsp?playerId=121314 Jackie Robinson profile] via National Baseball Hall of Fame
[[Category:Baseball Players]]
[[Category:Baseball Players]]
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