Jackie Robinson: A Major League Baseball Player

He was the youngest of 5. in 1937 he enrolled in pasadena junior college. His first year he was a shortstop and hit over 400 and stole over 20 bases in 25 games. During his second year, he played football. He ran for more than 1,000 yards and scored 17 touchdowns in 11 wins. He ever was a kick returner and ran back a 104 yard kickoff to the house for a touchdown. in the same year he played basketball and scored about 19 points a game and led his team to a championship. Later the same year he was MVP on his baseball team leading them to a championship, all while running track. the next year he went to UCLA on a scholarship for football and led the nation with a average of 12 yards a carry. He was the first four-letter athlete at UCLA playing baseball, football, track, and basketball. He later met a nursing student, Rachel Isum, his future wife. After he left college in 1942 he was drafted into the Army and was involved in World War II.For the next seventeen years, Jackie lived a great life after retiring from baseball. He was chosen to be in the Hall Of Fame in 1962. He was a advocate to bring public attention to the African American struggle and to help end racial discrimination..For the next seventeen years, until his death in 1972, Robinson lived an extraordinary yet difficult life.Opponents were always an issue with Jackie. During the games they would use racial slurs and rather cruel

Robinson attended Pasadena Junior College after high school. That is where he continued his athletic career. He played on the football team, baseball team, and he broke school broad-jumping records. Most of Jackie's teammates were white. In 1938,

“Near six o’clock on the evening of January 31, 1919, Jack Roosevelt Robinson was born somewhere near the town of Cairo in Grandy County in southern Georgia” (Rampersad 10). Jackie’s parents, Jerry and Mallie Robinson, first lived together on a small plantation just south of Cairo. Mallie Robinson raised her five children single handedly, and they later moved to Pasadena, California, which was not the most racially friendly environment due to the Robinsons being the only black family on the block. Not having a father in the home, he looked up to his older brothers and saw them as his future, they are the ones who introduced him into the sports

Born on January 31, 1919 Jack Roosevelt Robinson was the youngest of five children. His father left the family before Jackie turned one and shortly after his mom moved the family from Georgia to California in search of work (Contemporary Black Biography). Segregation was still present in California, but was less harsh than in the south. To get away from the problems and racial prejudice, Jackie turned to sports. He was an exceptional athlete excelling in football, baseball, basketball, and track in both high school and college. He played four sports for the University of California Los Angeles (commonly known as UCLA). He was mostly a football and basketball star and had no intentions of playing Major League baseball due to the fact that it was all white. Jackie had always wanted to become a social worker to help underprivileged boys and hoped that travelling the nation for sports would expose him to a job in that field

In basketball he was the conference’s player of the year and in baseball he led the team to a conference championship (Schutz,pg.9). In 1938, Robinson set the national junior college Amateur Athletic Union Broad Jump record. The former record holder was his brother Mack Robinson (Schutz,pg.9). In 1936, Mack competed in the Olympics when Jesse Owens won four gold medals, Mack won a silver medal (Schutz,pg.9). After his two years at Pasadena Junior College, Jackie attended the University of California in Los Angeles(Schutz,pg.9). At UCLA, Robinson was phenomenal; he led the conference in scoring in basketball, he won the national broad jump title in track but in baseball he had a rough batting average of .097(Schutz,pg.12). At UCLA, he met his wife Rachel Isum. Rachel and Jackie got married February 10, 1946. In March 1941, Robinson moved on from college sports and was offered to play football for the Honolulu Bears in Hawaii(pg.12). He would get paid 100 dollars per football game

In athletics he had more freedom to relate to people on equal terms, with less emphasis on race and more on body development, coordination, and performance level”(Carney-Smith). At this time in history is was extremely hard to be accepted by anyone as a young african american male. Jackie also did pretty well in school helping him get offers from big name schools, but mostly because of his tremendous athletic ability. “Robinson... declined many attractive offers from universities around the country nationwide, and chose the University of California, Los Angeles” (Carney-Smith). Jackie was on his path to changing america’s pastime forever, baseball, and being remembered as a hero. “He received many accolades in sports such as: highest scorer in basketball competition in the Pacific Coast Conference, national champion long jumper, school’s first athlete to letter in four sports, an all-american football halfback, and varsity baseball shortstop”

He was raised by Mallie Robinson and Jerry Robinson (parents). After his father left him and his family Jackie and the rest of his family moved to Pasadena, California. From there on he ended up going to college at the University of California, Los Angeles. He sustained his learning at the University of California, LA. In 1941, in spite of his athletic success, Robinson had to leave UCLA right before graduation due to his financial problems. Jackie Robinson had 3 major influences in his life. His wife, brother and Branch Rickey. His wife always pushed him to keep going and block out everyone else.Robinson's older brother, Matthew Robinson, inspired Jackie to pursue his talent and love of athletics. Branch brought him on to his team to help make a difference in the world and MLB even when he knew how hard it would be for both him and Jackie. Rickey knew there would be difficult times ahead for the young athlete, and so made Robinson promise to not fight back when

First of all, he married Rachel Isum in February, 1946. They had three kids, Shannon, David, and Jackie Jr. Next, he was named rookie of the year in 1947. Later, he won the Little World Series. With the Dodgers, the first team to recruit an African American player, he won six pennants and a World Championship. Meanwhile, he also broke baseball’s color barrier on April 10th. Congress awarded him the Congressional Gold Medal, the nation's highest honor for recognition of his historic role in breaking down baseball’s racial barrier. He was elected into the baseball hall of fame, and in his honor they retired the number 42. After baseball, he worked as vice president at Chock Full o-Nuts, a coffee company. Also, he voiced his opinions as a speaker, and a newspaper columnist. Furthermore, he created a fundraiser for the NAACP to raise money to campaign against segregation. Sadly, Jackie died from a heart attack in 1972. Thousands lined the streets for his funeral. Jackie was a very important part of

Jackie Robinson was born on January 31, 1919, in rural Cairo, Georgia. He was the youngest of five children, and raised by a single mother. Growing up in Pasadena, California, Jackie was relatively poor. Jackie attended John Muir High School and Pasadena Junior High, where he excelled in four sports: football, basketball, track, and baseball. Jackie continued his schooling at UCLA and in 1941, he was forced to leave due to financial hardship. Jackie then moved to Honolulu, Hawaii, where he played semi-professional football for the Bears. Jackie’s season was cut short when the United States entered into World War II, and he served as a second lieutenant in the army until 1944. In 1944, Jackie refused to give up his seat and move to the back of a segregated bus. As a result, Jackie was arrested and court-martialed. Fortunately, Jackie was acquitted of the charges and received an honorable discharge after public light was shed on the injustice. Jackie’s courage and moral objection to segregation were precursors to the impact Jackie would have in MLB.

Jackie Robinson was born on January 31, 1919, in Cairo, Georgia. Jackie was the youngest of five, his whole family was raised in poverty by a single mother. Jackie had attended high school at John Muir High School and he had also attended Pasadena Junior College, where he was an excellent athlete and played: football, basketball, track and baseball. And at that time he was the region's most valuable player in baseball in 1938. But after all that he had served his time in the military from 1942 to 1944, “Robinson served as a second lieutenant in the United States Army. However he never saw combat”

They were basketball, track, football, and baseball. Jackie chose to attend UCLA. Jackie earned varsity letters in football, track, baseball, and basketball. After Jackie was done with college, he got drafted for World War 2. When he got back to his normal life, he started up baseball again. He played for the Kansas City Monarchs, a farm team. Jackie had a batting average of .387, which was, and still is outstanding. When the major league coach of the Brooklyn Dodgers, Burt Shotton, added Jackie to his team, the effects were huge on not only the team, but it affected the whole

His father (Jerry Robinson) was a sharecropper and Jackie Robinson was a grandson of slave. His mother was Mallie Robinson. He moved with his mother to Pasadena California. He later went to Muir High School. He became the first student there to ever win four varsity letters in different sports, which included; Football, Baseball, Basketball, and Track.

Jack Roosevelt Robinson has influenced many people facing adversity as an African American who played sports in his era. His accomplishments and achievements had played an important role in his time and ours, because it paved the way for others colored races to be accepted in leagues that were primarily white dominant. Jackie Robinson’s influential challenges has given other African American athletes the courage to keep playing despite being segregated. He has given hope into any athlete who has the courage and will to play their sports. Jackie Robinson is an influential baseball player and has impacted the black community.

Jackie went to UCLA and during that time he was the first athlete to win varsity letters in 4 sports that the college had to offer: Baseball, Basketball, Football and track. In 1942 he was named to the all American football

Jack Roosevelt Robinson was born on January 31, 1919 in Cairo, Georgia. His parents, Mallie and Jerry Robinson, were from poor sharecropping families and had four other children--Willa Mae, Edgar, Frank, and Matthew “Mack” (who later became a silver medalist at the 1936 Summer Olympics). When Jackie, the youngest, was barely one year old, his father left the family. Mallie Robinson moved her children from Cairo to a relatively poor neighborhood in Pasadena, California. Jackie Robinson was often excluded from activities and spent a short time in a gang (he was persuaded to abandon it by a friend). In 1935, Robinson was enrolled at John Muir High School, where he was inspired by his athletic older brothers to play sports. Soon he was playing at varsity level in many events, including football, baseball, and track and field. He