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Originals 16 How to Be a Rebel Birth order can affect people's desire to rebel. Jackie Robinson steals the most bases in American MLB. He is the youngest of five children. Journalist Robert Quillen commented for Jackie Robinson to become Major League Baseball's first black player in 1947 is his first bravest thing he had ever done. Jackie Robinson's attempts to steal that home base at that day is the second-bravest thing he had ever done. Younger brothers and sisters choose sports where there are more injuries such as football, rugby, diving, skiing, and car racing. Older brothers and sisters preferred safer sports: baseball, golf, tennis, rowing and cycling. Birth order doesn't affect only sports. Younger children were more likely to support Newton, Einstein and Copernicus. Researcher Frank Sulloway and Richard Zweigenhaft shows that birth order is actually more important than age. -- Hosting provided by SoundOn