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1.jpg" style="width: 247px; height: 236px;" />1. Jack Roosevelt Robinson was born on January 31, 1919 in Cairo,GA. he started in four sports at UCLA in 1945. he played with the Kansas City Monarchs or the negro American league. in 1946 he played minor league baseball for the Montreal Royals. in 1956 he recieved the spingarn medal. he was elected to the hall of fame in 1962. he played for the Brooklyn dodgers in 1947 and stayed with them for 10 years. he started as first baseman, but was famous for playing second base he finished with a .311 lifetime batting average. he also was good at running and stealing bases. in 1947 he was named rookie of the year, and in 1949 he won MVP and batting champion with a .342 average. he died on october 24, 1972.

5. To stop Jackie from playing in the major leagues fans through bottles and other insults at him. His teamates openly protested having to play on his team. Opposing pitchers through the ball at his head. Players would spike him with their cleats when they slid into the base.

4. 1946-Jackie signed to the Brooklyn Dodgers. 1995-Jackie joined the Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro baseball league. Branch Rickey signs Jackie Robinson to be on the Brooklyn Dodger's minor league team.

3. on April 16 1945, Jackie Robinson and Marvin Williams impressed manager Joe Cronin and coach Hugh Duffy of the the boston Red sox while working out.

2. by the mid-1990's baseball had almost equal numbers of black and white players, but it was mostly latin american players. in other sports, except hockey, most players were colored, even golf had colored players, such as tiger woods.

6. the harlem globetrotters were created in 1927 but only played against other black teams. william "Dolly" king was the first African American to play in the National AW tournament. Ben Franklin, and Bob Yancy played basketball at Boston University in 1937.

7.william henry lewis was the first African American All-American football player in 1889. (he was on the same Amherst squad as William T Sherman)

8. James B washington was the first african american track runner. he was hired at Tuskegee Institute in 1893.

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