The Life Of Jackie Robinson

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universities offered him scholarships for his last two years of athletic eligibility.
Jackie chose the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) to finish his last two years. Basically because UCLA was the college that was closest to home.
He had a repeat performance and became the first four letter man. No one had ever made four varsity athletic teams. Again just like in high school, he played basketball, baseball, football, and ran track and field. He was the lead man in basketball for scoring two years in a row. He was awarded the label All-American halfback. Jackie traveled to Chicago and Hawaii to play in all star football games. (Stealing Home)
It was at UCLA that he met two very important people that would have a direct impact on his life. One of them was a black minister named Karl Downs, and the other was a nursing student named Rachel Isum whom he fell in love with and later married.
In 1941 Jackie Robinson left UCLA early before getting his degree, with high ...

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Jackie also received letters from some people that threatened to kill him if he even set foot on the same field as the white players in the southernmost cities of the National League. St. Louis and Cincinnati.
In 1945 Jackie was summoned to the office of Branch Rickey. Now the General Manager for the Brooklyn Dodgers . Branch Rickey was attempting to make history by putting the first black player on a Major League team. Branch Rickey tried to prepare Jackie for everything from the racial comments to physical assaults. Rickey said he was "looking for a ballplayer with guts enough not to fight back." This was a phrase that would later become legendary. What is less known is that ...

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