When Jackie went at UCLA he went to play baseball but when he got at UCLA he also played basketball, football, and track. After being at in college Jackie Roberson went to the military. When Jackie was in the military he played sports here too. One night well Jackie was on the bus sitting to a white woman but that wan't the problem. The problem was that a light skinned woman come on the bus and they wanted Jackie to move but he didn't want to, so that cause an altercation. So after being in the military for a good amount of time. In 1945 Jackie became a basketball coach at Sam Houston College. Sam Houston College is a small all black school in Texas. Jackie Roberson played for the Negro Leagues. The team Roberson played for was the Kansas City Monarchs. They payed Jackie $400 a month. A writer wanted Jackie to join to other black baseball players to tryout for the Boston Red Sox. When they went to the tryouts, they hear that the tryouts has been postponed and they hear that for four days straight. There has been not Negros in the major leagues until Branch Rickey wanted Jackie Roberson to play for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Jackie's first year in as a Dodger he .297 hits according to History Channel. Jackie face racism the first year before he got respect from his peers and other baseball players. But he made it through it all and is still one of the greatest in baseball history.
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History Channel."Jackie Robinson Breaks Major League Color Barrier."
History.com,A&E Television Networks, 2017, www.history.com/this-day-in-history/jackie-robinson-breaks-major-league-color-barrier.
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AP Photo. "Lowell Cohn: A Christmas tale of Jackie Robinson." Santa Rosa Press Democrat, 25 Dec. 2011, www.pressdemocrat.com/news/2301938-181/lowell-cohn-a-christmas-tale?artslide=1.
I enjoyed reading about Jackie Robison because i like baseball and have heard about him and read about him myself i think that it was neat that you included his military and other life experiences and not just his baseball career.The pictures were neat that you chose for Jackie Robison the jersey showing 42 reminds me of the movie 42 that was about him.
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