Baseball

One of the most influential people in society is Jackie Robinson. Not only has he made a great impact on society by inspiring African Americans to go to colleges or universities and changing the way people look at the All-American sport baseball, but by making history by being the first Afro-American to play major league baseball. His strong determination, effort, and talent have caused him to make an impact on the world which opened the door to black baseball players everyone.

Jackie Roosevelt Robinson grew up from a family of sharecroppers from a farm in Cairo, Georgia, known as the Jim Sasser Farm. Around the age of six months, Jackie's father abandoned his wife, Malli Robinson, and her other four children, Mack , Edgar, Frank, and Willa Mae, to bitter poverty. Soon after months of the Robinson family working, Malli decided to buy a new home in California. As a young boy Jackie was a rascal of a kid. When Jackie and his friends got together, they were known as The Pepper Street Gang. (Robinson, 15-18) The gang was troublesome to the community, Jackie and his fellow gang members often had to see the youth officer of the community for harassment acts and sometimes petty thefts. (Schlessinger, videocassette) Inspired

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He broke down a long standing barrier and did it with style and class. As a black male baseball player, Jackie Robinson had many obstacles to overcome.

Jackie Robinson lead the Brooklyn Dodgers to six National League Pennants, with one of them being the World Series which he helped his team win in 1955. He was the first athlete at UCLA to be a four-letterman in such sports as baseball, football, basketball, and track and field. html) To help even more, after his famous baseball career, from 1957 to 1964 Jackie Robinson served as a chairman of NAACP's Freedom Fund Drive. His most treasured accomplishment occurred in 1962, Jackie Roosevelt Robinson was

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