Dodger Stadium

We barely touched on the early years of the life of Jackie Robinson. This second half will get deeper into the baseball career of the iconic athlete, as well as hope his race impacted his own life and the lives of so many other Americans throughout history. Number Nine: He Was a Talented Athlete in Multiple Sports. He was the first student athlete to letter in four different sports in a season when he was a student at UCLA. He was a star baseball player, but he was also a guard/forward in basketball

Admittedly Ricky (dodgers coach) told jackie that the fans would be outrageous and that he would have to suck in his pride and do or say anything. As Jackie transferred over to the International League, people were saying things like ‘‘he won't make it simply because he’s

In The Interior Stadium, author Roger Angell provides a riveting account of the history of baseball. He writes about the magic and timelessness of the game, and the all-time great moments. Angell makes baseball sound like a magical thing, and he does it so beautifully. WhileIn spinning his tale of baseball wonder, the author uses nostalgia, pathos, and description to transform his words into reality. One major device used by Angell in his essay was nostalgia. He utilized this device in many ways

After watching the film 42, Jackie Robinson had to endure many different kinds of racial abuse in the MLB during this time. The film is about his rookie year in the league, and how people dealt with his presence in baseball. Segregation played a big role in the late 1940’s, and Jackie Robinson started this movement of African Americans being able to play in the MLB. Jackie Robinson displayed a great amount of strength in the film 42. He showed his strength by not reacting or showing any anger towards

cannot play baseball, wrote threats and put them on his door, made fun of his skin color and race and treated him very poorly. Jackie on the other hand dealt with all of this and just ignored those people while he played baseball for the Brooklyn Dodgers and lived with his mom Mrs. Robinson and Jackie Junior. Every time Jackie had a baseball game to go to Mrs. Robinson and Jackie Junior would go with him to cheer him on (because the crowds did not like Jackie so much). In a 1997 world series

His brother, Mack, was an olympic medalist as a runner, but since he was black, the only job he could find back home was as a garbage man. Jackie Robinson came from a blue-collar family and became the first black player to play Major League baseball, but he also became an icon for many when he used his platform to bring attention to his fight for racial equality. As a result, a baseball signed by himself and his teammates is displayed in the world-renowned Smithsonian Institute . The courage and

Most notably, he: “testified about discrimination before the House Un-American Activities Committee… he publicly called out the Yankees as a racist organization for not having broken the color barrier five years after he began playing with the Dodgers…” (Biography.com) and served on the board of the NAACP. Moreover, he wrote copious amounts of letters to President Eisenhower and President Kennedy about his sentiment towards the current political status regarding Civil Rights. For example, in a

the middle of his senior year because of financial reasons. After this, he went to Hawaii to play for a semi-professional football team. The beginning of WWII ended his season there. (A&E Corporation) Near, this time he was signed to the Brooklyn Dodgers and played for their farm team, the

by the Dodgers. On April 15, 1947, Robinson made his debut in the major league at Ebbets Field. There was a crowd of 26,623 spectators, and more than 14,000 of those spectators were Black. Robinson had officially broken the color line. He had become the first African American to play in the Major League Baseball in the modern era. The last time that the color line was openly broken in Major League Baseball was in 1880. This was a huge deal. African American fans would start attending Dodger games

courage regardless of the risks and the consequences he faced. Jackie Robinson showed a significant amount of moral courage while he was the first and only African American playing in Major League Baseball. He was chosen to play for the Brooklyn Dodgers by Branch Rickey, the general manager. Branch did not only choose him for his baseball capabilities, he chose him because he had courage, courage to not fight back. If Jackie was to fight back and rebell, he would have made an excuse for Africans