Jackie Robinson

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to play baseball, his
favorite sport. He tried out for many teams and was drafted by the Kansas
City Monarchs Negro League Team (Hill 1). The Negro League schedule was
very tuff. The team was always on the road playing games. Jackie did not
like the life style of being on the Monarchs (“Robinson, Jackie”). He and
his teammates would have to withstand the racial tensions everywhere they
went (Ward, Burns 285) . While Jackie was playing in the Negro Leagues,
Branch Rickey, the Los Angeles Dodgers manager was secretly sending out
scouts to look at Jackie and other players in the Negro leagues that stood
out above the rest fo their baseball talent (Hill 1). Rickey made the
excuse to the scouts that he wanted to put together an all black baseball
team called the “Brown Dodgers” (2). He was really looking for the right
black player that would break the color barrier in professional baseball
(1). Rickey looked at all his options and he chose Jackie Robinson of the
Kansas City ...

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new teammates signed a petition to get him off
the team just because he was black (Ward, Burns 283). The general managers
and head coaches of the Dodgers including Branch Rickey and Pee Wee Reese
kept him on the team and encouraged him to stay and ignore the racial slurs
and name calling (Ward, Burns 283). Other teams tried to boycott, but it
did not work (Rydell 86). Robinsons first games were the hardest (86). He
had many death threats made against him (“Robinson, Jackie”). The hotels
that Robinson went to with the team would not serve him because blacks were
not allowed (“Robinson, Jackie”). Even though he would not get served at
restaurants and hotels, he always kept his ...

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