League baseball. The amount of pain and suffering this man went through was so harsh

that I don't know how he was able to play. Carl Erskine said,"Maybe I see Jackie

differently. You say he broke the color line. But I say he didn't break anything. Jackie

was a healer. He came to rectify a wrong, to heal a sore in America"(Dorinson back

Jackie was born January thirty-first 1919. Shortly after he was born, his father

deserted his family. Almost a year after that, Jackie's uncle came to visit and convinced

his family to move to California with him. The whole family moved out there with his

uncle. They moved to Pasadena,California.

The neighborhood they moved into was mostly a white neighborhood. The white

people did not want them in the neighborhood. They would criticize Jackie and his

family. When he was about eight years old, he had learned to stand up for himself and

answer back when the occasion demanded.

Jackie went to Muir Tech. High School. At high school is where he began to get

interested in sports. He competed in football, baseball, basketball, and track. He was a

Secretary of Defense. Within a few days, Jackie and several blacks were in OCS(Duckett 23-24)

At UCLA, Jackie lettered in four sports in one year. He was the first player to do

No one wanted Jackie to play. Fans would send him mail threatening him,

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