The story Sonenberg developed focuses on Josh Gibson, a grea...

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The story Sonenberg developed focuses on Josh Gibson, a great athlete who played for Pittsburgh's Homestead Grays in the Negro Leagues and once hit a ball completely out of Yankee Stadium. The story
chronicles his early success (some had said he was better than Babe Ruth), the discrimination that kept him from playing in the major leagues, the death of his wife in childbirth, a stint playing baseball in Mexico, and his tragic early death at 35 from a brain tumor shortly before Jackie Robinson integrated baseball by joining the Brooklyn Dodgers.

The writer is considering deleting the underlined portion.
Should the portion be kept or deleted?

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Kept, because it shows that Sonenberg used a researched approach to write the story.

B

Kept, because it adds validity to the claim that Gibson was a successful athlete.

C

Deleted, because it does not explain precisely how many people held that view.

D

Deleted, because it undermines the primary assertion of the paragraph.

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