1:The author’s purpose for including the information about Mr. Rickey in paragraph 9 may have been to explain that —
9 There was more than just making money at stake in Mr. Rickey’s decision. I learned that his family was afraid that his health was being undermined by the resulting pressures and that they pleaded with him to abandon the plan. His peers and fellow baseball moguls exerted all kinds of influence to get him to change his mind. Some of the press condemned him as a fool and a demagogue. But he didn’t give in________________-----------------------------------------------------------------------
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2. And so, Agnes began a life dedicated to others. Throughout her childhood, she was active in her church’s community. Every year they went on a pilgrimage to a chapel atop a mountain in Macedonia. One day, while on one of these trips, Agnes had a life-changing experience. She felt that she had been called upon by God to devote her life to religion. Shortly after that, at the age of 18, she traveled to Ireland to join a convent and became a nun, taking the name Sister Mary Teresa.
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3: What is one idea the author wants readers to understand from the information in paragraph 10?

10 In a very real sense, black people helped make the experiment succeed. Many who came to the ballpark had not been baseball fans before I began to play in the big leagues. Suppressed and repressed for so many years, they needed a victorious black man as a symbol. It would help them believe in themselves. But black support of the first black man in the majors was a complicated matter. The breakthrough created as much danger as it did hope. It was one thing for me out there on the playing field to be able to keep my cool in the face of insults. But it was another for all those black people sitting in the stands to keep from overreacting when they sensed a racial slur or an unjust decision. . . . I learned from Rachel, who had spent hours in the stands, that clergymen and laymen had held meetings in the black community to spread the word. We all knew about the help of the black press. Mr. Rickey and I owed them a great deal.