Jackie Robinson

Jackie Robinson’s early life, his family was the only black family on their block. In his later life, he became a very popular civil rights speaker long after his baseball career ended, his greatest accomplishment was breaking the color barriers in all sports and still to this day he is a hero and a wonderful man.

First, he started at UCLA and became “the greatest thing that was ever made” because he played football, baseball, and basketball. Then got drafted by the Brooklyn dodgers, he started playing first, second, and third basemen. He said “he didn’t want to make the same mistakes he made the year before, he ate well, and stayed in shape by playing on a barnstorming team, along with the dodgers teammate Roy Campanella. He signed an agreement with the manager of the Brooklyn dodgers in 1946. He also agreed to hold his temper and not to get in fights for three years.

The Brooklyn dodgers manager in Jackie Robinson’s days said, that he was free to be himself, Jackie decided to not turn his cheek in insults. Actually stand up for himself. Became a wonderful player, while the season was beginning he volunteered at the Harlem YMCA, he had a good year in 1955. While he was playing, his wife Rachel Isum encountered racism in the real estate market, he batted right, he threw right, he was 5’ 11,’’ and he was weighed 195lbs.

What aspects of the creed Jackie Robinson exemplifies are good citizenship, and choices because he made it so, the blacks could play baseball in the MLB. His 50^th anniversary about him breaking the color barriers in all sports. Now, he became a civil rights activist after his baseball career ended until October 24, 1972 is when he died, he made it to where all kinds of people like Mexicans, British, Scottish, and Japanese, Chinese, and Vietnamese so we all can play any sport without be critize by other people.

Jackie Robinson are these examples in the creed which are choices and good citizenship because he had the choice to play basketball and football. He didn’t get in any fights at all during his career with Brooklyn dodgers. He broke the color barriers in all sports and didn’t give up on that because he wanted racism over and done with. You should try your best to be like Jackie Robinson because he is a hero and a warrior for the African Americans and everyone even white people.

Work cited

Teitelbaum, Michael. Jackie Robinson a man of equality, New York, sterling, 2010

“Jackie Robinson” baseball reference(march 6, 2007): march, 16,2011