He was considered a long shot to even stick in the league, and big time player agents, noting the lack of star quality needed to appeal to national advertisers, weren't clamoring after him.

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The new movie 42, mainly about baseball legend Jackie Robinson and his rookie year playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, is, in equal parts, a paean to his consummate athletic talent and a bearing witness to his resilience as the first African-American player in big league baseball.

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Hample caught Barry Bonds' 724th home run in 2006 and said this was the third time he's nabbed a player's first big league homer, with Gregorius joining Mike Trout and Mike Nickeas.

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