Jackie Robinson Jackie Robinson was one of the best players that proffesional baseball has ever.
seen and greatly helped major league baseball accept African American players that otherwise.
would not have palyed. .
Jack Roosevelt Robinson was born January 31, 1919 in Cairo, Georgia (Hill 1). Jackie's.
grandfather was a slave and his father a sharecropper (1). His mom and dad got a divorce when.
Jackie was just a baby (1). He, his mother and four siblings moved after his parents got a divorce.
(1). His mother took all the children and moved to Pasedena, California (1). .
Not long after the family moved to Pasedena, Jackie's mother enrolled him into Pasedena Junior.
College ("Robinson, Jackie"). He went on to University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) (1).
Jackie was a standout in school sports at UCLA, he played football, baseball, basketball, and track.
(1). He later left college in the middle of his junior year to join the Army in 1941 (1). Four years.
after entering the Army Jackie was discharged because of a confrentation with another officer when.
he would not give up his seat on a military bus (1). He was discharged as a first Lieutenant (1). .
After leaving the Army Jackie wanted to play baseball, his favorite sport. He tried out for many.
teams and was drafted by the Kansas City Monarchs Negro League Team (Hill 1). The Negro.
League schedule was very tuff. The team was always on the road playing games. Jackie did not like.
the life style of being on the Monarchs ("Robinson, Jackie"). He and his teammates would have to.
withstand the racial tensions everywhere they went (Ward, Burns 285) . While Jackie was playing in.
the Negro Leagues, Branch Rickey, the Los Angeles Dodgers manager was secretly sending out.
