Jackie Robinson: The Man that Changed Baseball

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Here comes Jackie Robinson, dashing towards home base going as fast as he can. The dirt is flying up behind him. Bam! He slides into home plate, with a cloud of dirt and the catcher around him. Here comes the umpire, and he screams safe. The crowd goes wild cheering for him. This is what Brooklyn Dodger fans were used to hearing whenever Jackie Robinson was on base. Sadly though, that is not the only thing that he would be hearing. On a daily basis not just at the field but anywhere Jackie would go he would hear the sounds of what present people now a days call haters. Jackie knew that if he were to show any sort of weakness, that what he was doing would be all for nothing. By doing what he has done, Jackie was able to change sports forever by facing different hardships along with discrimination throughout his years playing baseball. “Jack Roosevelt Robinson was born on January 31, 1919 in Cairo, Georgia. Jackie had 4 brothers and sisters and he was the youngest of them all Jackie like most African-Americans was poor as a young boy and he was raised by his mother only. He attended John Muir High School and Pasadena Junior College, where he was an excellent athlete and played four sports: football, basketball, track, and baseball. He was named the region's Most Valuable Player in baseball in 1938. Jackie’s older brother was in the Olympics for the 200 meter dash and finished in 2nd place just behind Jesse Owens. Jackie would have graduated from UCLA if he would have not run into financial problems his last year, which forced him to leave.”(Jackie Robinson Biography). Racial discrimination to African-Americans could be seen everywhere throughout the United States. “Public schools were segregated by law in the South and by custom an... ... middle of paper ... ...e. He must have dealt with more things in his sort life time then most do in their lifetime. Thanks to all of Jack’s hard work and effort he was able to change not just America, but the whole world around him because he never gave up on what he believed in and he also fought to do what he thought was right. And now thanks to him he has helped shaped the world of sports into a great society where everybody in equal to each other and no one person is different. Works Cited History, U.S. U.S. History. n.d. 28 April 2014 . Jackie Robinson Biography. 2014. 3 May 2014 . National Archives. 2014. 3 May 2014 . Young, Geisler. Baseball Almanac. 2014. 3 May 2014 .

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