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Major Taylor
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50 years before Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers, when bicycle racing was the most popular sport in the world, Marshall "Major" Taylor competed at the highest level, setting numerous world records and winning a world championship in 1899 -- with quiet dignity and in the face of extreme hostility and prejudice, even threats against his life. His example lends a higher meaning to the expression "sports hero". There is a fiction-based-on-fact story about him on this site. You may read more about him on the Web site of the Major Taylor Association.
