Jackie Robinson

Net Worth

$6,000,000

Born in (City)

Cairo, Georgia

Born in (Country)

United States

Date of Birth

31st December, 1919

Date of Death

24th December, 1972

Mother

Mallie Robinson

Father

Jerry Robinson

Children

Sharon Robinson
David Robinson
Jackie Robinson Jr

About

Jack Roosevelt Robinson was a famous American expert baseball player who turned into the primary African-American to play in Major League Baseball. The Dodgers signed Robinson, this heralded the end of racial segregation in professional baseball that was neglecting black players to the Negro leagues since the 1880s. His compensation in the year 1950 was the most noteworthy any Dodger had been paid to that point: $35,000.In 1997, MLB resigned his uniform number 42 overall significant class groups, he was the primary expert competitor in any game to be so regarded. MLB additionally received another yearly convention, "Jackie Robinson Day". Robinson’s major league debut brought an end to approximately sixty years of segregation in professional baseball, known as the baseball color line. Robinson was enlisted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962.

Early Life

Jack Roosevelt Robinson was born on January 31, 1919, in Cairo, Georgia into a group of tenant farmers. H was the most youthful and patient of the five kids of Mallie Robinson (McGriff) and Jerry Robinson. He had 4 siblings namely kin Edgar, Frank, Matthew (nicknamed "Mack") and Willa Mae. After Robinson’s dad left the family in 1920, they moved to Pasadena, California. The all-inclusive Robinson family settled itself on a private plot containing two little houses at 121 Pepper Street in Pasadena. Robinson’s mom worked different random temp jobs to help the family. Subsequently, Robinson joined a local pack, however his companion Carl Anderson convinced him to surrender it. In 1935, Robinson moved on from Washington Junior High School and enlisted at John Muir High School. Recognizing his athletic abilities, Robinson’s more seasoned siblings Mack who himself was a refined competitor and silver medallist at the 1936 Summer Olympics and Frank propelled him to seek after his enthusiasm for sports. He played shortstop and catcher on the ball club, quarterback on the football crew, and gatekeeper on the b-ball group. With the Olympic-style sports crew, he won honors in the expansive hop. He was likewise an individual from the tennis team. In the wake of moving on from PJC in spring 1939, Robinson was selected at UCLA, where he turned into the school’s first competitor to win varsity letters in quite a while in baseball, ball, football, and track. In mid-1945, while Robinson was at Sam Huston College, the Kansas City Monarchs sent him a composed proposal to play proficient baseball in the Negro leagues. Robinson acknowledged an agreement for $400 per month.

Road to Success

In 1936, Robinson won the lesser young men singles title in the yearly Pacific Coast Negro Tennis Tournament and procured a put on the Pomona yearly baseball competition top pick group, which included future Hall of Famers Ted Williams and Bob Lemon. In late January 1937, the Pasadena Star-News paper detailed that Robinson "for a very long time has been the remarkable competitor at Muir, featuring in football, b-ball, track, baseball and tennis". He was one of four dark players on the Bruins\’ 1939 football crew; the others were Woody Strode, Kenny Washington, and Ray Bartlett. Washington, Strode, and Robinson made up three of the group\’s four backfield players. At when a couple dark understudies played standard school football, this made UCLA school football’s most coordinated team. They went undefeated with four ties at 6–0–4.In olympic style events, Robinson won the 1940 NCAA title in the long seize 24 ft 10 1⁄4 in (7.58 m). In mid-1945, while Robinson was at Sam Huston College, the Kansas City Monarchs sent him a composed proposal to play proficient baseball in the Negro leagues. Robinson acknowledged an agreement for $400 per month. Although he played well for the Monarchs, Robinson was baffled with the experience. In spite of the fact that he expected Robinson to stay quiet about the course of action until further notice, Rickey focused on officially marking Robinson before November 1, 1945. Following Stanky’s exchange to the Boston Braves in March 1948, Robinson took over a respectable halfway point, where he logged a .980 handling rate that year. Twenty-five years after Robinsona’s passing, the Interboro Parkway was renamed the Jackie Robinson Parkway in his memory.

Challenges

Robinson's life was full of drastically inflated challenges. On October 23, it was openly reported that Robinson would be doled out to the Royals for the 1946 season. Around the same time, with agents of the Royals and Dodgers present, Robinson officially marked his agreement with the Royals. In what was later alluded to as "The Noble Experiment", Robinson was the main dark baseball major part in the International League since the 1880s. He was not really the best part in the Negro leagues, and dark abilities Satchel Paige and Josh Gibson were disturbed when Robinson was chosen first. Larry Doby, who broke the shading line in the American League the exact year as Robinson, stated, "Something that was frustrating and crippling to a ton of the dark players at the time was that Jack was not the best player. The best was Josh Gibson. I believe that is one reason why Josh passed on so early—he was sorrowful”. In the spring of 1949, Robinson went to Hall of Famer George Sisler, filling in as a counsel to the Dodgers, for batting help. At Sisler’s recommendation, Robinson went through hours at a batting tee, figuring out how to hit the ball to right field.

Failures

Robinson was doled out to the Royals for the 1946 season. Robinson showed up at Daytona Beach, Florida, for spring preparing with the Montreal Royals of the Class AAA International League. Earth Hopper, the director of the Royals, requested that Rickey allocate Robinson to some other Dodger partner however the latter didn’t. The Dodgers attempted Robinson in the outfield and as a third baseman, both due to his reducing capacities and because Gilliam was set up at the second base. Robinson, at that point 36 years old, missed 49 games and didn’t play in Game 7 of the World Series. Complications such as heart diseases and diabetes weakened Robinson and made him almost blind at his middle age. Robinson died of a heart attack at his home.

Achievements

Quotes

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.
Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.