How did jackie robinson die
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Jackie’s Story
Jackie Robinson was born Jan 31, 1919 in Cairo, Ga., and moved to Pasadena, Calif. with his family just one year later. As a young student at John Muir Technical High School, he excelled in baseball and track, and took his talents with him to UCLA to continue playing baseball and running track, as well as playing football and basketball. To this day, he is still the only athlete in UCLA’s history to have lettered in four sports.
In April 1942, Robinson was drafted into the United States Army. While serving, he challenged the Army to include African American soldiers in Officer Candidate School, after which he was accepted and commissioned as a second lieutenant. On Aug. 2, 1944, he was arrested in Fort Hood, Texas for sitting in the front of an Army bus; he was found not guilty of all charges in court and was honorably discharged later that year due to an ankle injury.
In the spring of 1945, Robinson joined the Kansas City Monarchs, a baseball team in the Negro Leagues. In October of the same year, Branch Rickey, the President and General Manager o
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About
Jackie Robinson
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. A star athlete, Jackie became the university’s first four-sport letter winner, excelling in football, basketball, track and field, and baseball. After leaving UCLA, he served in the U.S. Army during World War II, but was court marshalled and honorably discharged for standing up for his rights and refusing to move to the back of a segregated military bus.
In 1944, upon returning home from the military, Jackie Robinson set his sights on joining baseball’s Negro Leagues and began playing shortstop for the Kansas City Monarchs. In 1945, opportunity beckoned when Branch Rickey, the general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, invited Robinson to become the first African American to play with the all-white Dodgers’ farm team, the Mon
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Jackie Robinson
American baseball player (1919–1972)
For other people named Jackie Robinson, see Jackie Robinson (disambiguation).
Baseball player
| Jackie Robinson | |
|---|---|
Robinson with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1949 | |
| Second baseman | |
| Born:(1919-01-31)January 31, 1919 Cairo, Georgia, U.S. | |
| Died: October 24, 1972(1972-10-24) (aged 53) Stamford, Connecticut, U.S. | |
Batted: Right Threw: Right | |
| NgL: 1945, for the Kansas City Monarchs | |
| MLB: April 15, 1947, for the Brooklyn Dodgers | |
| October 10, 1956, for the Brooklyn Dodgers | |
| Batting average | .313 |
| Home runs | 141 |
| Runs batted in | 761 |
| Stats at Baseball Reference | |
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| Induction | 1962 |
| Vote | 77.5% (first ballot) |
Jack Roosevelt Robinson (January 31, 1919 – October 24, 1972) was an American professional baseball player who became the first African-American to play in Major League Baseball (MLB) in the modern era. Robinson broke the color line when he started at first base for the Brooklyn D
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