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Childhood & Early Life. Born on January 31, 1919, in Cairo, Georgia, USA, to Jerry and Mallie Robinson, Jackie was the youngest of the five children in the family. In 1920, after his father abandoned his family, they moved to Pasadena, California, where his mother took up sundry jobs to sustain her family.
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- Early life
- Breaking the color barrier
- Retirement and death
- Jackie Robinson Day
Jackie Robinson was the first African American to play Major League Baseball in the United States during the 20th century. On April 15, 1947, he broke the decades-old “colour line” of Major League Baseball when he appeared on the field for the National League Brooklyn Dodgers in a game against the Boston Braves.
What was Jackie Robinson’s early life like?
Jackie Robinson was reared in Pasadena, California. An outstanding all-around athlete at Pasadena Junior College and at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), he excelled in football, basketball, track, and baseball. He withdrew from UCLA in his third year to help his mother care for the family. In 1942 he entered the U.S. Army.
What were Jackie Robinson’s achievements?
In 1947, the year he broke baseball’s “colour line,” Jackie Robinson was named National League Rookie of the Year. In 1949 he was the league’s Most Valuable Player. Robinson led the Brooklyn Dodgers to six league championships and one World Series victory. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962.
How did Jackie Robinson influence others?
Reared in Pasadena, California, Robinson became an outstanding all-around athlete at Pasadena Junior College and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He excelled in football, basketball, and track as well as baseball. In 1941 Robinson withdrew from UCLA in his third year to help his mother care for the family. To provide financial assistance, he began playing semiprofessional football in Hawaii while also working in construction. In 1942 he entered the U.S. Army and attended officer candidate school; he was commissioned a second lieutenant in 1943. Robinson faced court-martial in 1944 for refusing to follow an order that he sit at the back of a military bus. The charges against Robinson were dismissed, and he received an honorable discharge from the military. However, the incident presaged Robinson’s future activism and commitment to civil rights.
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Upon leaving the army, Robinson played professional baseball with the Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro American League, where he drew the attention of the president and general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, Branch Rickey. Rickey had been planning an attempt to integrate baseball and was looking for the right candidate. Robinson’s skills on the field, his integrity, and his conservative family-oriented lifestyle all appealed greatly to Rickey. Rickey’s main fear concerning Robinson was that he would be unable to withstand racist abuse without responding in a way that would hurt integration’s chances for success. During a legendary meeting, Rickey shouted insults at Robinson, trying to be certain that Robinson could accept taunts without incident. On October 23, 1945, Rickey signed Robinson to play on a Dodgers farm team, the Montreal Royals of the International League.
Robinson led that league in batting average in 1946 and was brought up to play for Brooklyn in 1947. He was an immediate success on the field. Leading the National League (NL) in stolen bases, he received MLB’s inaugural Rookie of the Year award. In 1949 he won the batting championship with a .342 average and was voted the NL’s Most Valuable Player (MVP).
His personal experiences were quite different. Fans hurled bottles and invectives at him. Some Dodger teammates openly protested against having to play with an African American, while players on opposing teams deliberately pitched balls at Robinson’s head and spiked him with their cleats in deliberately rough slides into bases. But not everyone in baseball was unsupportive of Robinson. In 1947 rumors circulated that players on the St. Louis Cardinals were threatening to strike if Robinson took the field. After Cardinals owner Sam Breadon discussed the rumors with NL President Ford Frick, Breadon met with the Cardinals’ team leaders, who assured him that the threat of a strike was merely idle talk and grumbling from a few players. When fan heckling of Robinson became intolerable, Dodger captain Pee Wee Reese left his position on the field and put an arm around Robinson in a show of solidarity, and the two men became lifelong friends. However, with the ugly remarks, death threats, and Jim Crow laws that forbade a Black player to stay in hotels or eat in restaurants with the rest of his team, Robinson’s groundbreaking experience in the major leagues was bleak. Of this period Robinson later stated:
Plenty of times I wanted to haul off when somebody insulted me for the color of my skin, but I had to hold to myself. I knew I was kind of an experiment. The whole thing was bigger than me.
His career in baseball was stellar. His lifetime batting average was .311, and he led the Dodgers to six league championships and one World Series victory. As a base runner, Robinson unnerved opposing pitchers and terrorized infielders who had to try to prevent him from stealing bases.
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After retiring from baseball early in 1957, Robinson engaged in business and in civil rights activism. He was a spokesman for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and made appearances with Martin Luther King, Jr. With his induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, in 1962, Robinson became the first Black person to be thus honored.
Robinson suffered a heart attack at his home in Stamford, Connecticut, on the morning of October 24, 1972, and died shortly afterward. He was 53 years old. In his memoir, I Never Had It Made, which was published that same month, he discussed the conflicting feelings he wrestled with on September 30, 1947, when he was poised to become the first Black player to play in the World Series:
There I was, the black grandson of a slave, the son of a black sharecropper, part of a historic occasion, a symbolic hero to my people. The air was sparkling. The sunlight was warm. The band struck up the national anthem. The flag billowed in the wind. It should have been a glorious moment for me…As I write this twenty years later, I cannot stand and sing the anthem. I cannot salute the flag; I know that I am a black man in a white world. In 1972, in 1947, at my birth in 1919, I know that I never had it made.
In 1984 Robinson was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest honor for an American civilian.
In April 1997, on the 50th anniversary of the breaking of the color bar in baseball, baseball commissioner Bud Selig retired Robinson’s jersey number, 42, from Major League Baseball. It was common for a team to retire the number of a player from that team, but for a number to be retired for all the professional teams within a sport was unprecedente...
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29 de oct. de 2009 · When Was Jackie Robinson Born? Jackie Robinson was born on January 31, 1919, in Cairo, Georgia, to a family of sharecroppers. He was the youngest of five children.
30 de abr. de 2022 · For much of his childhood, Jack was cared for by his sister Willa Mae, just two years older, while his mother worked to support the family.
Jackie Robinson was born on January 31, 1919, in Cairo, Georgia, the son of a sharecropper and the grandson of former slaves. Young Jackie grew up in Pasadena, California, raised by a single working mother of five. After graduating from Pasadena Junior College, Jackie attended the University of California Los Angeles.
