He would later go on to .
marry Rachel Islum. When Jackie played at college, he was exposed to the harsh .
racism in sports and of the country. Jackie was not able to sleep, eat, or in some .
instances travel with the team (Coombs 18). Jackie learned to deal with this, this .
lesson would prove monumental later in his life. Robinson also joined the Army .
for a few years becoming an OCS (Coombs 27). were he was again discriminated .
by the people of the Army when he wanted to try-out for their baseball team. He .
was told, "Try-out for the colored team" no such team existed (Coombs 29). In .
November of 1944 he was honorably discharged after a bus incident off base .
(Coombs 31). His friends, family, Military and school, all of this made Jackie .
Robinson the type of man which Branch Rickey was looking for to integrate .
baseball. All of these played significant roles in Robinson's life. They instilled.
values in Robinson which made him succeed in his goals as well as Branch .
Rickey's goals.
Branch Rickey is one of baseball's greatest minds, and is responsible for .
making the choice of Jackie Robinson to integrate baseball. If it were not for this .
man baseball may not be integrated today. He is also responsible for developing .
the farm league system for the major league teams, and also expanding the game .
to many areas (Rennert 52). The biggest achievement which Rickey has .
accomplished, and which baseball is the most thankful for is the integration of .
Major League Baseball. Branch Rickey's traits have been said to have been "a .
player, manager, executive, lawyer, preacher, horse-trader, spell binder, innovator, .
husband and father and grandfather, farmer, logician, obscurantist, reformer, .
financier, sociologist, crusader, sharper, father confessor, checker shark, friend .
and a fighter"(Herzog 52). from those traits it was clear to see that with his traits, .
and intelligence baseball was on the road to integration, with Rickey behind the .
