Jackie Roosevelt Robinson was born in Cairo,Georgia. The only people he lived with was his mother (Mallie Robinson) and his four sibling (Edgar,Frank,Mack, and Willa Mae). Jackie was the youngest out of all the sibling. Robinson's family was poor, when he was a kid they moved in with a family member but it didn't work out because it was a little amount of space for a lot of people. So Mallie and her children moved into their own house. For them to keep the house Jackie's mother had to find a job and that was hard to do because she was a black woman. Since Jackie was young he went to school with Willa Mae but Jackie didn't go in he just stayed outside and played in the sandbox. One day Willa Mae's teacher said that Jackie couldn't go to school with not more but Jackie's mother begged the teacher to let Jackie go and the teacher allowed it. When Jackie was old enough to go to school he was known for playing sports very good. When he would play outside with some of the children he knew, all the kids wanted him on his team. Jackie's brother Mack made it to 1936 Olympics the made second place to Jesse Owens which who won the gold medal. When Jackie was in high school he played basketball, football, baseball and he even did track like his brother Mack. Jackie Robinson was a high school all-star he was good at everything he played even at golf and tennis. Being good at everything didn't earn him a scholarship to a big name college but it got him into a junior college and the school was Pasadena. At Pasadena Jackie played the some sports he did in high school. Jackie's broad jump was 25 feet,6 1/2 inches in college. When it was time for to play baseball he stole 25 bases in just 24 games and he hit .417 and also got names the Most Valuable Junior College Player in Southern California. Having the season Jackie scouts form major universities where there to watch him play. In 1939 Jackie Robinson went to UCLA because he wanted to stay in his home town. Right now everything is look up Jackie he start off rough and right now it is going smooth.
Fig. 1 Obias, Rudie. "42 Facts About Jackie Robinson."
Mental Floss, 28 Feb. 2017, mentalfloss.com/article/50059/42-facts-about-jackie-robinson.
Works Cited
Denenberg, Barry.
Stealing Home: The Story of Jackie Robinson. Scholastic, 1990.
Obias, Rudie. "42 Facts About Jackie Robinson."
Mental Floss, 28 Feb. 2017, mentalfloss.com/article/50059/42-facts-about-jackie-robinson.
