Being one of the greatest baseball players alive, I have changed the world of baseball by one choice. I made one choice to be my ultimate greatest. I have made myself and my family very happy. I am the first African American to play in the MLB. I chose to stand up for what I believe is right. The world was very bad and I chose to change it. Back then when I was a child, race was a major issue in this world. Everyone wanted to be with their own race. My grandfather grew and in poverty and was a slave.(Aaron and Hank 1) He lived a very harsh life and had other people rule him poorly. My parents then grew up in the era of when slavery was abolished( Aaron and Hank 1) . My parents then grew up in poverty. Even though I grew up poor, …show more content…
My grandfather, for the last one I know, was part of slavery. He was put into slavery and couldn’t get out of it. He then had kids and his son married a nice kind woman named Mallie who is the mother of me. They dated for quite some time and soon got married. They then had a child named Jack Roosevelt Robinson, or also known, as me Jackie Robinson. I’ve had a very rough life growing up. I was in poverty and didn’t get everything I wanted. Indeed I was poor, but I got through life. On the other hand ,my family has inspired me to do many different things during my life. My parents have been the biggest inspiration and have always supported my decisions. Besides, they have bought me everything I needed whether it was expensive or not. My family and I did not have lots of money but I still went to …show more content…
I could be one of the bravest people alive. When I was a child race was a very big thing. It still was growing up. The black people had to be with the black people and the white people had to be with the white people. Although I loved the sport of baseball, but I couldn’t play in the MLB because I was black and everyone else was white. I wanted to make a change in this world and I have the ability to do it. However, I wanted to be the first African American to play baseball. I went and talked it out, and got an unbelievable answer. They said yes, I am able to play in the MLB. I just have to be brave enough to play in front of hundreds of thousands of people. I can’t let anyones judgment get in my head while I’m playing or just out in public. Although, after a while I think that people are starting to like me. I have made one of the greatest achievements and that was making my parents