Jackie Robinson

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Robinson succeeded in many sports, including football, were he was the quarterback for his state champion team. Robinson was recruited by the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) where he ended up becoming UCLA’s first four-letter man, which means he participated in four sports for his whole career. During 1941, Robinson decided to drop out of his final semester at UCLA and take a job with the federal government’s National Youth Administration. Only a few months later, after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Robinson was drafted into the U.S. Army. Shortly after the war, Robinson started playing baseball again which was just the beginning of an exceptional baseball career. Over the ten seasons Robinson played with the Brooklyn Dodgers, he played in six World Series including the 1955 season in which they won the World Championship. In his first season in 1947, Robison was named the MLB Rookie of the Year. He was elected to six consecutive All-Star games and became the ...

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respect from the community was something that both Rickey and Robinson realized would take some time but gaining the respect from the players and coaches was a barrier Robinson had to overcome on his own. Rickey came up with an idea where he would have the Dodgers and Royals practice together in spring training were there would be multiple exhibition games with Robinson playing against the Dodgers. Although there weren’t many, Leo Durocher, the manager for the Dodgers, wanted Robinson on the team immediately, but there was a group of Southern-born Dodgers that were starting an anti-Robinson petition. But with his impressive play on the field he had a lot of support from Durocher. ...

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