The author's purpose for including this paragraph is to explain the resistance that Branch Rickey willingly took on in an effort to being the process of ending segregation in Major League Baseball. This paragraph serves to explain that there were people off the field who also helped revolutionize the game.
You should write about a love story between a boy and a girl. Have them start off as friends and make it so the readers would never expect them to be together.
Okay, for the first one the anwser is D, for the second question the answer is B.