Jackie Robinson Accomplishments

Jackie Robinson's early life and education

he ran a track runner his parent didn't really have a lot of money and they had to move alot he went to to high school and attended the college of california jackie was forced to leave the college even though he was a great help with sports there he had to move to hawaii and attended ucla a college and then went off to play professional football for honolua bear but it was cut short because of world war two a terrible battle Jackie was raised by his single mother jackie went off into the army and became a lieutenant in the united states army jackie was born on jan/31/1919

Accomplishment
Jackie robinson won many award in high school during track and football and baseball he was named southern …show more content…
he is and was famous for going through all the stuff he did he was one of the most intelligent baseball player there were you couldn't just go out and finds someone to do what jackie did he went through hell he got note to his family say that he and his family were gonna be killed he has he had three children Sharon robinson,david robinson,jackie robinson jr and people were threatening to kill him and them and his wife was named rachel robinson and his parent names was mallie robinson and his dad's name was jerry robinson he was one of the very first black people to be in the major league and the whites were still racist then he was also a first basemen and a second baseman and not only him making it to where black could play baseball it was also very hard to get into the mlb and everyone on the team hated jackie and would make fun of him and say that they weren't gonna play for him or with him branch rickey was the one who got jackie into baseball and would let nobody tell him that jackie robinson couldn't play baseball there were pitcher that would try to hit him and would hit him he never gave up even though at one point he wanted to but he didn't do it for him he did it for his race he was the only person that could steal every base he was lighting on his feet you couldn't get him out on the bases for nothing he would get out of a pickle everytime running track must have paid off in the long run he hit good he had the best batting average in the major leagues one

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