Summary Of Jackie's Debut A Unique Day By Mike Royko

In “Jackie’s Debut: A Unique Day,” is written by Mike Royko, and appeared in the Chicago Daily News on Wednesday, October 15, 1972, the day after Jackie passed away. This article is about one of the most famous and cultural African Americans to ever play the game of baseball. In the beginning of the story, there were wise men sitting in the tavern that had something to say about Jackie. They weren’t the kindest words and said that he would ruin the game of baseball. Jackie was going to be at Wrigley Field and the kid had to see him perform. Him and his friend always walked to the baseball games to avoid streetcar fare. On that day, Wrigley Field was packed. He had never seen anything like it, there were about 47,000 people there and at the

time you wouldn’t see too many blacks on that side, but that day they were there to see Jackie play. You would think when you go to a baseball game that everyone is dressed in baseball clothes or summer clothes, but the blacks were not. They were dressed up for the event. When Jackie came up to bat, a standing ovation and applauses came from the whole stadium and then went silent as they watched him hit a foul ball and then struck out shortly after. Jackie also played first, and there was a grounder that was hit straight to him and when the runner came down to step on the bag, he stepped on Jackie’s foot to intentionally run into him. Jackie was up to bat again and hit a foul ball to the boy and the black man that was standing next to him said that he would buy it off of him for ten dollars. At the time, ten dollars was a lot to the man, so he was willing to take the ball, which in the end, the boy regrets selling the ball to the man but is happy that he sold the ball to the man, because today it is probably worth a lot of money.