Jackie Robinson was the first African American to “break baseball’s color barrier” and play as a part of a white league. Robinson stepped out if the negro leagues to play for the all-white Brooklyn Dodgers. He was the first black person to play in Major League Baseball. There were, of course, obstacles. People were racist to him because most of the country was segregated, and Robinson faced rejection from players from other teams, their team owners, bigoted white fans, and even his own teammates. Robinson describes this unfair treatment when he says, “Some of my own teammates refused to accept me because I was black.” Not to mention, he received hate mail and physical threats against him and his family. He never quit and learned to stay