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Jackie Robinson

Jackie Robinson. Childhood. Jack Roosevelt Robinson was born in Cairo, Georgia in 1919 to a family of sharecroppers. His mother, Mallie Robinson, single-handedly raised Jackie and her four other children.

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Jackie Robinson

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  1. Jackie Robinson

  2. Childhood • Jack Roosevelt Robinson was born in Cairo, Georgia in 1919 to a family of sharecroppers. • His mother, Mallie Robinson, single-handedly raised Jackie and her four other children. • Growing up in a large, single-parent family, Jackie excelled early at all sports and learned to make his own way in life.

  3. Adulthood • At UCLA, Jackie became the first athlete to win varsity letters in four sports: baseball, basketball, football and track. • In 1941, he was named to the All-American football team. • Due to financial difficulties, he was forced to leave college, and eventually decided to enlist in the U.S. Army.

  4. Baseball • In 1945, Jackie played one season in the Negro Baseball League, traveling all over the Midwest with the Kansas City Monarchs. • In 1947, Brooklyn Dodgers president Branch Rickey approached Jackie about joining the Brooklyn Dodgers.

  5. Accomplishments • At the end of Robinson's rookie season with the Brooklyn Dodgers, he had become National League Rookie of the Year with 12 homers, a league-leading 29 steals, and a .297 average. • In 1949, he was selected as the NL's Most Valuable player of the Year and also won the batting title with a .342 average that same year. • Jackie was eventually inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962.

  6. Life After Baseball • After a decade with Brooklyn, he was traded to the New York Giants in December 1956. A month later, the 37-year-old Robinson announced his retirement. • He became a vice president for Chock Full o' Nuts before going into other businesses and politics. • Diabetes and heart disease weakened him and he was almost blind in middle age. On October 24, 1972, he died of a heart attack at 53.

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