Baseball's Legend - Jackie Robinson
Imagine yourself in the stands of a baseball game on a spring day. The crowd cheering and the smell of popcorn in the air. The year is 1947 in the city of Brooklyn, New York and you're about to see history in the making. For the first time in history a black man takes the plate. By this doing he is about to break the social status of the black man. But not all are happy about this event. There are some that want things to stay the way it was. Every man is searching for some kind of acceptance in his life. Weather it'll be trying to be accepted by his peers or by just himself. In life many just want to be accepted, one person who wanted to be an equal with his peers is Jackie Robinson. Some to consider him to be one of the best baseball players of all time and some just think of him as another Negro that's trying to play a white mans game. Jackie Robinson is the first black man to join the NBL (national baseball league). He joined the Brooklyn Dodgers and not all people are pleased about it. In Time Magazine one man writes, " The answer for the Negro is to be found, not in segregation or separation, but by his insistence upon moving into his rightful place, the same place as that of any other American within
In conclusion Jackie Robinson changed the way of life, he was a great man that changed that way blacks were looked in society and the way of the game. After Robinson became a public figure he spoke out about how blacks were treated in society. He opened up the doors for future atheles like himself. He showed the world that greatness can come from different backgrounds. Although many consider him to be a black man playing in a white mans game, he still stood up to the challenges that was thrown at him. Jackie Robinson went down in history as a great baseball player but he was also a great man. our society." (White 3) White shows how blacks should be accepted. Jackie Robinson took the field for the very first time on April 12, 1947. At that game the fans ands fellow athletes taunted him. Even though he was taunted he still played very well. He married a beautiful, and white women named Rachel. He became the first black person in the Baseball hall of fame and he retired in 1957. The very first time Jackie Robinson took the plate, he was changing the way of life for all races and inspiring many at the same time. Joe Bostic, from the New York Amsterdam News, said, " The most significant sports story of the century was written into the record books today as baseball took up the cudgel of democracy and an unassuming Negro ascended the heights of excellence to prove the rightness of the experiment. And prove it in the only correct crucible for such an experiment-the crucible of white-hot competition." (Bostic) Joe Bostic said that when Robinson went 4 for
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