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A 4 page biography/report on the life and accomplishments of Jackie Robinson-- the American baseball player known for 'breaking the color barrier' and becoming the first Black player to gain widespread acceptance playing for a Major League team. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Roosevelt Robinson was born in a town called Cairo, Georgia, on January 31, 1919. He then grew up on the West Coast in Pasadena, California and it was there,
in high school that Jackie Robinson began to exhibit great athletic skill in such sports track, basketball, football, and particularly baseball which he further demonstrated at Pasadena Junior College.
Continuing his education, Robinson also continued to excel in sports while studying at the University of California at Los Angeles. (Olsen, 1974) Unfortunately,
Jackie Robinsons athletic endeavors came to a screeching halt when he left school in 1941 and was drafted the following year for Army service during World War II. Fortunately,
his athletic activity resumed after Robinson received a medical discharge in 1945 and spent a year playing baseball with the Kansas City Monarchs of what was then called the Negro
National League. His outstanding playing ability brought him to the attention of Rickey, who hand-picked him as the man most likely to succeed in overcoming the racism prevalent in the
sport of baseball. Jackie Robinson played the1946 season with the Montreal Royals, a Brooklyn Dodgers farm club, and led the International League in hitting with a .349 average.
Astonishingly, he stole 40 bases and scored 113 runs (Olsen, 1974). From the beginning, Jackie Robinson proved himself not only to be a revolutionary image of multiculturalism, but
also as an excellent baseball player as well. When the Brooklyn Dodgers opened their 1947 season, Robinson was playing second base. An immediate success, he led the
National League in stolen bases and was named rookie of the year. Most of what I have read seems to indicate that the chief problem Jackie Robinson had to overcome
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