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Krattenmaker says Robinson also developed a mentor-protégé relationship with a dynamic pastor in his church, and expressed his faith through civil rights activism.

Robinson’s beliefs helped convince Branch Rickey, the pious Brooklyn Dodgers executive, to make Robinson a racial pioneer, Krattenmaker told me when I talked to him recently for an article on the growing nexus between sports and faith.

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article courtesy of CNN.com

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