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Jackie Robinson - College Term Paper

Jackie Robinson

was born in Cairo, Georgia in 1919 to a family of sharecroppers. He went to the University of California at Los Angeles. At UCLA he showed a great deal of athletic ability. He was the first student-athlete to win varsity letters in four sports-football, basketball, baseball and track.
In 1941 he left college to join the Army. He became a second lieutenant in his journey through the Army. It was a segregated army then. He received an honorable discharge in 1944 after he was acquitted from a court-martial.

Robinson began his professional baseball career in 1945. He played for the Kansas City Monarchs, one of the leading teams in the Negro Leagues. Later in the year he signed with the ...

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his life if he continued to play baseball. Even with all these things going on he still stole home 19 times. He was a graceful fielder, timely hitter, and aggressive base runner. His contributions won the Dodgers new fans, increased attendance at games, and helped make the Dodgers a very competitive team in baseball.

Robinson retired after the 1956 season rather than get traded to another team. He finished his career with a .311 batting average. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962, the first black to receive the ...

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Added: 1/27/2008 05:35:37 PM
Category: Biographies
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 292
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