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Jackie's Love With Sports

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Jackie was in love with sports and was quite good at the ones he played. Jackie was a star basketball player the best football player on his team and even was an olympic broad jumper. Jackie even lettered in 2 sports, but baseball, he started playing for a farm team named the montreal royals. After about 2 months jackie was recognized for his talent, and branch rickey (the president of the brooklyn dodgers) didn’t agree with segregation and wanted to give robinson a chance, later after watching jackie he agreed to sign jackie robinson to the brooklyn dodgers in 1947. He was also named rookie of the year and national league MVP in the same year and a world series champ in 1955. He inspired people to be involved by proving that blacks can do

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