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"The movie \"42,\" which premieres in theaters Friday, documents Jackie Robinson's breaking of the color barrier in Major League Baseball, and much of it focuses on a field in Daytona Beach where the first integrated game was played.Doc Graham played baseball for the Jacksonville Red Caps when Robinson was breaking down barriers with the Dodgers farm team.He spoke with WESH 2's Dave McDaniel in Daytona Beach and said he can't help but be proud to have known Robinson.\"We played against him,\" said Graham. \"Did you beat him?\" asked McDaniel.\u00A0\"He beat us. He beat us, but we were there,\" he said.It was 1946 and America was much different.\"This integration of baseball is viewed as a milestone in civil rights and sports history,\" said Bill Schuman, ballpark historian.It's a milestone that happened at City Island Ball Park, now named Jackie Robinson Ballpark. Schumann worked to make the tribute to Robinson happen.\"This was the first racially integrated spring-training baseball game in modern baseball history,\" he said.At the time, there were so-called \"Jim Crow seats,\" separating people who came to watch.The tributes to Robinson are all over the park. The memories are still there for a guy who played professional baseball as a teenager.\"It is miraculous that he was able to perform athletically under these conditions of segregation and pressure,\" said Schumann.\"He just put it together. Once you just put it together at some level, that's how it is,\" said Graham.Little of this could have happened if not for the courage and leadership of the people in Daytona Beach, such as civil rights leader Mary McLeod Bethune.If you have a movie ticket from \"42,\" you get a free pass into the Bethune-Cookman University baseball games this weekend."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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