Jackie Robinson made one of the most daring moves by playing Major
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
cover).
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
good player in every sport. During high school, college recruiters failed to pay
attention to him. He didn't receive any scholorship, so he decided to go to Pasadena
Junior College.
Pasadena Junior College is where Jackie began to get noticed for his athletic
abilities. He set many records in track, baseball, and football. Babe Horrel wanted to
recruit Jackie from Pasadena Junior College. One of the best athletes on the West
Coast(Tygiel 27)
After two years at Pasadena Junior College, he transfered to UCLA. Jackie went
here so his brother, Frank would be able to attend most of the games. His brother never
did get to see a game because he died in a motocycle accident.
At UCLA, Jackie lettered in four sports in one year. He was the first player to do
that. He played track, baseball, basketball, and football. ...
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...id become friends with him. It was his teammate Peewee Reese. Reese was a white man
that played shortstop for the Dodgers. During one game, Jackie mad a diving catch to win
the game for the Dodgers. Jackie got hurt on the play. Reese goes over to second base to
make sure Jackie was alright. No one else came over to see if he was alright. It showed a
lot of courage for Reese to do that. Reese took a lot of crap for doing it but he didn't care.
Thus in eight years America's most prominent national sport moved from a
tradition of seventy years discrimination to almost complere intergration(Tygiel 156).
The big step of Jackie joining major league baseball changed everything in sports and
life. He was a civil rights leader just like Martin Luther King Jr. He made the big step to
show that it's not impossible to get things to be equal.We should all be very thankful for
what Jackie Robinson has done. He didn't give into fear and run away from the challenge
of breaking the color barrier. He took the challenge and conquered it. He changed the
history of baseball and the rest of life. He helped the blacks become equal to the white
race.
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Jackie (Robinson), we’ve got no army. There’s virtually nobody on our side. No owners, no umpires, very few newspapermen. And I’m afraid that many fans will be hostile. We’ll be in a tough position. We can win only if we can convince the world that I’m doing this because you are a great ballplayer, a fine gentleman. (Quoted in Giants of Baseball, Gutman, Rickey)
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