Jack Roosevelt "Jackie" Robinson (January 31, 1919 - October 24, 1972) is the player's first African-American to play Major League Baseball in the American Basebal in the modern era. Although players are not the first African American in history to play in the North American baseball, but Robinson was abolished apartheid boundaries when he debuted for the Brooklyn Dodgers shirt color between the 1940's. This ended nearly 60 years of apartheid era in professional baseball, including the banned African Americans played in the North American Baseball League and the Little League system and just playing associated in the Negro baseball league designed for players of African Americans. Because racism still dominates all aspects of life in America at that time so Robinson's baseball career had tremendous cultural impact beyond the field of sports and is a precursor to the Human Rights Movement in the United States. Born into a farming family in Cairo, Georgia in 1919, is the youngest of 5 children. His grandfather used to be a slave, his father was a farmer but no land, rented land from peasants for cultivation (and thus half of the crops they harvested on the land will belong to the owners rent land). When the new Jackie was 6 months old, his father left his family live in other states. There is no charge father in the fields, Jackie and family to leave the farm. 1920 Jackie and his family moved to Pasadena, California, to live with his small apartment. His mother is in charge of the laundry in the house as a way to pay the rent, while Jackie often took old bread from the day before put milk and sugar before bed stomach lining. Somehow, his mother milling facility to gain a little bit of money, plus the aid of social welfare unit, she bought a small house. Neighbors their white brothers call him with bad names, even throwing rocks. Even for them to do everything possible to have their families moved away, but Jackie's mother adamant not to leave because the game full of cursing him racist. Mother of two children he wishes to study well at school, and though Jackie is a good game, but his heart always towards sports and games than about learning. After school, he went to sell peanuts saucepan, shining shoes and selling newspapers to make more money. He was hanging out with a group of neighborhood hooligan and without the presence of the two men and that, he would fall into all sorts of trouble. The first was a mechanic near his feeling for the situation, so he tried to suggest that if there is no perfect guys hang out with them again, sooner or later revision also hurt himself and his mother anymore. The other is the priest of the church which had become friends and even his advisers, and ignited passion in his sport. Jackie plays all sports, and played very well. First time playing table tennis, he won the citywide championship, catapulted to stardom brightest of high school - scores of rugby, athletics, basketball and baseball cap Conduit excessively. When in Pasadena middle school in 1938, he set a new record in the long jump with a result more than 23 meters in the morning, then in the afternoon he was dressed in uniform playing baseball. With the participation of this time, he helped the team win the championship. Rugby team and his basketball participants won the league championship trophy, and the course trainer quickly invited him to speak about their university. Jackie chose the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), to be closer to home school. Rugby is the greatest love of him at that time, and he held the position of midfielder and defender for the champion UCLA in 1939 when football season ends, he switched to playing basketball, athletics and Baseball. He played good in the running to become the first student to be awarded the badge of UCLA for valuable contribution to the achievement of the sport. In the spring of 1941, he quit school because he wanted to earn extra money to help out his mother, and he was not sure a black man with a college degree can work as well for the school. December 7, 1941, Japanese forces bombed Pearl Harbor and six months later, he received a call-up papers. adulthood: Army moved him to Fort Riley Kansas area, where he completed training basis and would like to continue attending officer training school (OCS). But the military does not recognize black students. Jackie complains to Joe Louis, the heavyweight boxing champion in the world, who also joined the army and concentrated at Fort Riley at the time. Not long after, the profile of Jackie applicants are approved OCS, he graduated in 1943 and was awarded the rank of Lieutenant. After his discharge in 1944, he wanted to go back to playing baseball, but this time, not a black athlete that is playing in the team's participation in the major leagues. He entered the Kansas City Monarchs, Negro tournament, where the state of racism in the military as keeps happening. Many hotels, restaurants refuse to serve black people, so he and his teammates ate, slept on trucks players. But in New York, a man raising intend rid of skin barrier for baseball players. Branch Rickey, the Brooklyn Dodgers team boss, decided it was time to put an end to the racism in the sport. Rickey knew the first black player to play for Dodger fans will be fans and even teammates boycotted, so that character can not be a player, he must possess good way. 1945 Rickey Jackie will decide which player! Jackie knew things would be difficult, but he accepted the challenge faced because he thought could open the door for other black players in the world. Jackie joined the Montreal Royals, the team's part-Dodger, and though fans tried sarcasm, he has not lost the spirit of the game. Rickey then decides it's time to put Jackie in professional tournaments. April 15, 1947 is a landmark history of professional baseball league and throughout the United States. When the award was open on that day, Jackie stood in ranks Dodger team, the first African American to be taking part in North American professional baseball. At first, the white team did not care what he was, but the fans and the players Jackie harass you by whistling and saying something disparaging puts the color, the team unity His supporters stood up. Jackie responded to all these things on foot and baseball bat in his hands. With a ratio of 0.297 hit his ball, he helped Dodger win and he led the robbers to run some golf. He also earned the nickname emerging players best season. Then in 1949, he was awarded the Most Outstanding Player (MVP) Award for Professional Baseball League, and he also starred in a movie about his life. In 1957 he retired with a ball hit ratio is 0.311 and in 1962 he was honored in the Museum of American baseball, National Baseball Hall of Fame, the first black person to receive this prestigious honor. Later he retired, he keeps fighting to raise our voice for racial injustice and also contribute to the fight to win justice for other Americans. His courage paved the way for the tournament professional baseball color barrier not later. Rickey chose the right person. Jackie is not only a great player, he was a great man! "Freedom of the most important people such as the freedom to choose." Jackie Robinson (1919 - 1972) Wikimedia Commons has media type and image transmission on Jackie Robinson Jackie brings shirt number while playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers is number 42, the shirt number 42 after being formally withdrew from the MLB to Jackie Robinson honored. Every year on April 15, the opening day of the 1947 MLB Jackie Robinson Day and also the launch of the Brooklyn Dodgers, the American baseball player and his general bearing number 42 shirt but to acknowledge the contribution of Jackie, This day is known as "Jackie Robinson Day".
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