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Blacks In Baseball Essay, Research Paper

Jackie Robinson Jackie Robinson was one of the best players that proffesional baseball has ever

seen and greatly helped major league baseball accept African American players that otherwise

would not have palyed.

Jack Roosevelt Robinson was born January 31, 1919 in Cairo, Georgia (Hill 1). Jackie’s

grandfather was a slave and his father a sharecropper (1). His mom and dad got a divorce when

Jackie was just a baby (1). He, his mother and four siblings moved after his parents got a divorce

(1). His mother took all the children and moved to Pasedena, California (1).

Not long after the family moved to Pasedena, Jackie’s mother enrolled him into Pasedena Junior

College (”Robinson, Jackie”). He went on to University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) (1).

Jackie was a standout in school sports at UCLA, he played football, baseball, basketball, and track

(1). He later left college in the middle of his junior year to join the Army in 1941 (1). Four years

after entering the Army Jackie was discharged because of a confrentation with another officer when

he would not give up his seat on a military bus (1). He was discharged as a first Lieutenant (1).

After leaving the Army Jackie wanted to play baseball, his favorite sport. He tried out for many

teams and was drafted by the Kansas City Monarchs Negro League Team (Hill 1). The Negro

League schedule was very tuff. The team was always on the road playing games. Jackie did not like

the life style of being on the Monarchs (”Robinson, Jackie”). He and his teammates would have to

withstand the racial tensions everywhere they went (Ward, Burns 285) . While Jackie was playing in

the Negro Leagues, Branch Rickey, the Los Angeles Dodgers manager was secretly sending out

scouts to look at Jackie and other players in the Negro leagues that stood out above the rest fo their

baseball talent (Hill 1). Rickey made the excuse to the scouts that he wanted to put together an all

black baseball team called the “Brown Dodgers” (2). He was really looking for the right black

player that would break the color barrier in professional baseball (1). Rickey looked at all his

options and he chose Jackie Robinson of the Kansas City Monarchs (1). He chose Jackie because

of his skills in baseball and his courage (1).

Branch and Jackie met on August 28, 1945 to discuss his signing to the LA Dodgers (1). The

meeting was very important because rickey wanted to make sure Robinson would not retaliate

against the racist comments that he will be facing if he was moved up to the LA Dodgers (2).

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