Jackie Robinson Biography

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Jackie Robinson American baseball player Jackie Robinson, byname of Jack Roosevelt Robinson, (conceived January 31, 1919, Cairo, Georgia, U.S. — kicked the bucket October 24, 1972, Stamford, Connecticut),   

the main Black baseball player to play in the American significant associations during the twentieth hundred years. On April 15, 1947, Robinson broke the many years old "variety line" of Major League Baseball when he showed up on the field for the National League Brooklyn Dodgers.  

He played as an infielder and outfielder for the Dodgers from 1947 through 1956.

Raised in Pasadena, California, Robinson turned into an exceptional all-around competitor at Pasadena Junior College and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).  

He succeeded in football, b-ball, and track as well as baseball. Robinson pulled out from UCLA in his third year to assist his mom with really focusing on the family. In 1942 he entered the U.S.  

Armed force and went to official up-and-comer school; he was charged a second lieutenant in 1943. Robinson confronted court-military in 1944 for declining to follow a request that he sit at the rear of a tactical transport.  

The charges against Robinson were excused, and he got a respectable release from the military. 

The occurrence, nonetheless, foretold Robinson's future activism and obligation to social liberties.   

After leaving the military, he played proficient football in Hawaii and baseball with the Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro American League, where he drew the consideration of the president and senior supervisor of the Brooklyn Dodgers, Branch Rickey.

Play in a Dodger ranch group On October 23, 1945, Rickey marked Robinson to play in a Dodger ranch group, the Montreal Royals of the International League.

Most Valuable Player Robinson drove that association in batting normal in 1946 and was raised to play for Brooklyn in 1947.  He was a quick accomplishment on the field. Driving the National League in taken bases, he was picked Rookie of the Year.  

In 1949 he came out on top for the batting title with a .342 normal and was casted a ballot the association's Most Valuable Player (MVP).

In the wake of resigning from baseball

In the wake of resigning from baseball ahead of schedule in 1957, Robinson occupied with business and in social equality activism. 

He was a representative for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and showed up with Martin Luther King, Jr. With his acceptance in 1962, Robinson turned into the primary Black individual in the Baseball Hall of Fame, in Cooperstown, New York.  

His self-portrayal, I Never Had It Made, was distributed in 1972. In 1984 Robinson was post mortem granted the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the most noteworthy distinction for an American non military personnel.

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