... California. This is where Jackie would group up, and turn to athletics to solve his academic and home problems. A natural athlete, Robinson played football, basketball, baseball, and track and field at Pasadena Community College. He then went on to UCLA, (University of California, Los Taylor, 2 Angeles), where he again excelled ... and track. After college, he was drafted in the Army and served in World War II. Upon his return, he played professional basketball for the Los Angeles Red Devils for a year. He then attended a try out with the Kansas City Monarchs, a baseball team in the Neg...

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... people could be. Jackie attended John Muir Technical High School where he starred in football, basketball, baseball, and track. After high school Jackie enrolled at UCLA in September 1939. At college he continued to play football, basketball, baseball, and track. Jackie was the first student at UCLA to play and star in ... year the Dodgers won the pennant. They played in the World Series against the New York Yankees. After six games the Dodgers lost in the seventh game. In Robinson's second year in 1948 his batting average was .296, only twenty-two stolen bases. That year the Dodgers miss...

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... (23). There, Robinson became the first Bruin athlete to earn varsity letters in four sports (25). Robinson was a standout in football, baseball, basketball and track (26). After three years of college Robinson left college to work to support his mother (29). Several months later, Pearl Harbor was ... in their comments towards blacks. The following season Robinson got moved up to the Los Angeles Dodgers professional team only five days before their first game (Kahn 101). On April 15, 1947, Robinson became the first black player to play Major League Baseball (104). Robinson's new teammate...

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... these sports figures as "idols" who are invincible. And because so many people get emotionally invested while watching sports and become so involved in the game, sports consequently holds a great importance to them in their lives. As Richard Harris Jackson states, "the enjoyment we experience emotionally from witnessing the success ... to that, in the public's eye, Mantle was a Yankee slugger who was considered to be a hero to anyone who saw him play the game with power and grace. Bouton's book became an instant bestseller and (coupled with the proliferation of media outlets such as cab...

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... . Jackie Robinson was born in Cairo, Georgia on January 31, 1919 and grew up in Pasadena, California, where he attended UCLA. While attending there he won letters in football, baseball, basketball, and track. He was regarded as the most all-around athlete in the U.S. at the time. After serving three years in the army, he began playing baseball with the Kansas ... a lot of peoples respect and also became a symbol of black opportunity. Even the magazine Sporting News, which was against black baseball players, acknowledged his great skill and ability in the game of baseball and awarded him ...

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... , on January 31, 1919 to Jerry and Mallie Robinson. He grew up in Pasadena, California. In high school and at Pasadena Junior College he showed great athletic skill in track, basketball, football, and baseball. He left school in 1941 and was drafted the following year for Army service during World War II. While in the armed services Robinson developed his roots ... attendance. Satchel Paige's enormous popularity became apparent when he starred for the Cleveland Indians, drawing in over 200,000 fans in three consecutive starts. Tygiel tells us that in one game the appearance of Paige caus...

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