Jackie Robinson
Jackie robinson was famous for being the first African American to play in the mlb. Jackie once said “I’m not concerned with your liking me or disliking me...All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.’’ When Jackie Robinson first entered the mlb it was in the heat of the civil rights fight against racism. Jackie Robinson is concerned one of the best mlb player ever.
Jack Roosevelt Robinson also known as Jackie was born on January 31, 1919. He grow up in the small town of Cairo in Georgia. He was the youngest of 5 children in the family. After Jackie’s father left his family when Jackie was 1 they moved to Pasadena, California. His mom had to work more than 1 job to support their family. Because Jackie grow up in poverty he was excluded from all sorts of things. This led Jackie in the wrong direction because he would join a neighborhood gang. If it wasn't for his friend Carl Anderson, Jackie could have easily not been one of the best baseball players of all time.
In 1935 Jackie graduated from Washington Junior High School and enrolled in John Muir High School. At John Muir High School Jackie play 5 sport including Football,Baseball,Basketball,Track and was also a member of the tennis team. He played Catcher and Shortstop in Baseball he played Quarterback in
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He was one of only 4 black players on the UCLA football team. In 1940 He won the NCAA Men’s Track and Field Championship in the long jump with the distance of 24 ft 10 ¼ in. Robinsons “Worst Sport” was baseball at UCLA. He only played 1 season at UCLA and had a very low .097 average. Although baseball was his worst sport in his first game he went 4-for-4 and stole home twice. Robinson decided to leave school with just a few more credits to earn before graduating. Instead he took a job as assistant athletic director at the National Youth Administration in Atascadero,