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Jackie Robinson retires after the Brooklyn Dodgers trade him to the New York Giants for pitcher Dick Littlefield and $35,000. Robinson's career and achievements had already been set to music in the 1949 hit Did You
See Jackie Robinson Hit That Ball? by Count Basie, and in 2010 it also inspired Jim Gekas and Tony Calderisi to record their tribute, Mr Robinson.
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