It's April 15, 1947 opening day at Ebbets Field, Brooklyn. Many people

have turned out to see one man, the first black person to ever play in major

league baseball. He is setting new standards for all blacks now and those to

come. His name is Jack Roosevelt Robinson. We all wish him well and hope he

can surmount the racial differences.

At this time it was unheard of to have a black person treated equally to a

white person, more the less it was highly unlikely to have a black person play on the same field as a white person. But for one man who stands alone Jackie Robinson's conquest to break through the color barrier with the help of Branch Rickey has set new standards for all black athlete's to come.

Jackie Robinson grew up in Cairo, Georgia. Jackie attended UCLA where he played baseball, basketball, football, and track. After collage Jackie enrolled in world war two. After the war Jackie got an honorable discharge. After the end of the war Jackie didn't know what he wanted to do and he was very short on money. Finally Jackie decided he wanted to join the Negro Leagues. In 1944 Jackie officially was on a Negro baseball team.(Shorto,Russell p. 5-10)

was. Things kept getting better and better for Jackie the pitches at his head

organization. Rickey singed Robinson to a Minor League deal in 1945. Jackie's

to spend some of his time helping blacks in as many ways has he can. He turned

friends Pee Wee Reese and Ralph Branca who stood by him when nobody else

together with the director of the YMCA of Harlem and suggested things that he

Jackie's wife was making friends with the other player's wives, and Jackie finally got the respect from everyone now and many people were beginning to feel what it was like to be Jackie Robinson.

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