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Gibson died of a stroke at age 35 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, just three months before Jackie RobinsonJack Roosevelt Robinson ( January 31, 1919 October 24, 1972) became the first African American Major League Baseball player of the modern era in 1947. The significance of this event in U. history is observed by the retirement by each Major League team of became the first black playerThe Baseball color line was the unwritten policy which excluded African American baseball players from Organized Ball in the United States before 1947. As a result, various Negro Leagues were formed, which featured those players not allowed to participate in modern major league history. Gibson is buried in the Allegheny CemeteryAllegheny Cemetery at 4734 Butler Street in the Lawrenceville district of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania was created with the same landscaped garden style as the Mount Auburn Cemetery near Boston, Massachusetts and is considered as one of the most beautiful bur in the Lawrenceville district of Pittsburgh.

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