Tell me things about Jakie Robinson?
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From Wiki Early lifeIn 1919, Jackie Robinson, the youngest of five children,[4] was born in Cairo, Georgia during a Spanish flu and smallpox epidemic. [5] In 1920, his family moved to Pasadena, California[5] after his father abandoned them.[6]
Robinson grew up in relative poverty[7] and even joined a local neighborhood gang in his youth. Eventually, his friend Carl Anderson persuaded Robinson to abandon the gang.[8]
In 1935, Robinson graduated from Dakota Junior High School and enrolled in John Muir High School ("Muir Tech").[9] There he played on various Muir Tech sport teams, and lettered in four of them. He was a shortstop and catcher on the baseball team, a quarterback on the football team, a guard on the basketball team, and a member of the tennis team and the track and field squad. He won awards in the broad jump.[10]
In 1936, he captured the junior boys singles championship in the annual Pacific Coast Negro Tennis Tournament, starred as quarterback, and earned a place on the annual Pomona baseball tournament all-star team, which included future Baseball Hall of Famers Ted Williams and Bob Lemon. [11] The next year, Jackie played for the high school's basketball team. That year, the Pasadena Star-News newspaper reported on the young Robinson.[12]
After leaving Muir, Jackie attended Pasadena Junior College and played both football and baseball.[13] He played quarterback and safety for the football team, shortstop and leadoff batter for the baseball team, and participated in the broad jump.
While at PJC, he was elected to the "Lancers,” a student run police organization responsible for patrolling various school activities.[14] He dated and made friends. However, on January 25, 1938, he was arrested for questionable reasons and sentenced to two years probation.[15]
In 1938, he was elected to the All-Southland Junior College (baseball) Team and selected as the region's Most Valuable Player.[16] On February 4, 1939, he played his last basketball game at Pasadena Junior College. Thereupon Robinson was awarded a gold pin and was named to the school's "Order of the Mast and Dagger.”[17]
After leaving PJC, Robinson chose to attend the nearby University of California, Los Angeles, where became the school's first athlete to win varsity letters in four sports: baseball, basketball, football and track.[18] Despite many athletic achievements and having nearly completed the requirements for his degree, he withdrew from the university for financial reasons in 1941. He then briefly worked as an athletic director for the National Youth Administration before going to Honolulu that fall to play football for the semi-professional, racially integrated Honolulu Bears. The season was brief, and he returned that December, shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor that drew the United States into World War II.[19] He was drafted the following year.
Military career
Jackie Robinson served in the United States Army from 1942-1944 as a second lieutenant, and his actions during his military service not only presaged his breaking of the color line in baseball, but may also have influenced, however indirectly, President Harry S. Truman’s decision to integrate U.S. Armed forces in 1948. As the finding aid to the Jackie Robinson Papers at the Library of Congress succinctly notes, the archive includes:
"[P]ersonnel records from Robinson's military service, including court-martial charges of insubordination resulting from his refusal to obey an order to move to the back of a segregated military bus in Texas. A military jury acquitted Robinson, and shortly thereafter, he received an honorable discharge.”[20]
Jackie thus revealed himself to be a man of principle and courage years before he entered the public eye. His July 6, 1944 refusal to submit to Jim Crow laws while in the military pre-date, by more than a decade, a similar, but much more widely-known “stance” by Rosa Parks, who famously refused to give up her seat on a public bus in 1955. [21] At his August 2, 1944 court martial, Jackie was found innocent of insubordination. He was honorably discharged from military duty on November 28, 1944, but his story, and his resistance to hatred rooted in bizarre notions spawned by scientific racism and popular prejudice had only really just begun.[22]
The racism which poisoned baseball permeated all of American society. Jackie Robinson's remarkable courage, as expemplified by his early protest in the military long before his entry into a very popular and public sport, and his resolute stand for simple human decency must therefore be seen as profoundly important not only to professional sports, but to the entirety of American culture. As one historian has concisely noted: "Once the integretative or leveling model of baseball -- all America playing and working in harmony -- was extended to African Americans, the effect on the nation was profound. Eighty years after the Civil War, America had proved itself unable to practice the values for which it was fought."[23]
Jackie's life, including the military court martial which cleared his name of insubordination for refusing to submit to the humiliation of segregation, may thus be seen as an early turning point in the life of the nation.
The Dodgers
Cover of a Jackie Robinson comic book, issue #5, 1951
Cover of a Jackie Robinson comic book, issue #5, 1951
In the late 1940s, Branch Rickey was club president and general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers. The Dodgers began to scout Robinson, and Rickey eventually selected him from a list of promising African-American players. Robinson became the first player in fifty-seven years to break the Baseball color line.
In 1946, the Dodgers assigned Jackie Robinson to the Montreal Royals. Jackie proceeded to lead the International League in batting average with a .349 average, and fielding percentage with a .985 percentage.[24] That winter he also married Rachel Isum, his former UCLA classmate.[19] Because of Jackie's play in 1946, the Dodgers called him up to play for the major league club in 1947. Robinson made his Major League debut on April 15, 1947, playing first base when he went 0 for 3 against the Boston Braves.
Throughout the season, Robinson experienced harassment at the hands of both players and fans. He was verbally abused by both his own teammates and by members of opposing teams. Some Dodger players insinuated they would sit out rather than play alongside Robinson. The mutiny ended when Dodger management informed those players that they were welcome to find employment elsewhere.
On April 22, 1947, during a game between the Dodgers and Philadelphia Phillies, Phillies players called Jackie a "***" from their dugout, and yelled that he should "go back to the cotton fields."[25] Rickey would later recall that the Phillies' manager, Ben Chapman, "did more than anybody to unite the Dodgers. When he poured out that string of unconscionable abuse, he solidified and united thirty men."[26] Baseball Commissioner Happy Chandler admonished the Phillies and asked Chapman to pose for photographs with Robinson as a conciliatory gesture.
Dodgers shortstop Pee Wee Reese, who would be a teammate of Robinson's for the better part of a decade, was one of the few players who publicly stood up for Robinson during his rookie season. During the team's first road trip, in Cincinnati, Ohio, Robinson was being heckled by fans when Reese, the Dodgers team captain, walked over and put his arm around Robinson in a gesture of support that quieted the fans and has now gained near-legendary status. Reese was once quoted saying about Robinson "You can hate a man for many reasons, color is not one of them." In addition, the Jewish baseball star Hank Greenberg, who had faced considerable anti-Semitism earlier in his career, made a point of welcoming Robinson to the major leagues.
For his services, Jackie earned the major-league minimum salary of $5,000, which was standard for many rookies at the time. That year, he played in 151 games, hit .297, led the National League in stolen bases and won the first-ever Rookie of the Year Award. Although Jackie played every game that season at first base, Robinson spent most of his career as a second baseman.
Two years later, Jackie won the Most Valuable Player award for the National League. He would win his only championship ring when the Dodgers beat the New York Yankees in the 1955 World Series. After the 1956 season, Robinson was traded by the Dodgers to the New York Giants for Dick Littlefield and $30,000 cash. Rather than report to the archrival Giants, Robinson chose to retire at age 37.
Robinson was a disciplined hitter and a versatile fielder. He had a .311 career batting average and substantially more walks than strikeouts and was an outstanding base stealer. No other player since World War I has stolen home more than Robinson, who did it 19 times in his career.[27] During his career, the Dodgers played in six World Series and Jackie played in six All-Star games. He is a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame and a member of the All-Century Team. In one of his most famous quotes, he said "I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... all I ask is that you respect me as a human being."[28]
Any red sox fans here??...this is our year?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/jackie_robi...What Major League Baseball team has had the best start in baseball history?
i just finished his autobiography (it took me less than a day and half) its worth reading and will tell you everything you need to know and then some.its titled
i never had it made
all the info from wikipedia isn't correct and really doesn't tell you much about the guy-its worth reading HIS OWN WORDS.
for example did you know that he was a LIBERAL REPUBLICAN?
did you know that he had a son who died in a car crash?
did you know he was traded TO THE GIANTS but choose to leave baseball only because of the way it was handled.
HE ACTUALLY SUPPORTED VIETNAM. he never saw combat in ww2 but always wanted to go-but because of a racial insident that happend he was kept out.
his brother was RUNNER UP TO JESSIE OWES IN THE 1936 olympics
he was the son of a share cropper and grandson of a slave.
i could go on but you should read the book.
What two players have hit walkoff grand slams this year?
It's called a library. It's full of books, and yes, you'll find books about Robinson there, too.Stop cheating yourself. Do your own homework.
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