Robinson is also the first living Black person to receive the honor, as the other three inducted recipients are deceased.
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Basketball Hall of Fame Inductee, Two-Time Olympic Gold Medalist Lynette Woodard, Returns to Harlem Globetrotters as Special Advisor
Lynette Woodard, was the first woman to ever join the world-famous Harlem Globetrotters.
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Pioneering sports journalist, Claire Smith, an Ellington resident who broke barriers by becoming the first female beat writer in Major League Baseball and the first woman to receive the prestigious J.G. Taylor Spink Award from the National Baseball Hall of…
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