Jackie Robinson Accomplishments

Jackie Robinson was a baseball player that lived from 1919 to 1972. People know him for destroying the color barrier and making history when he became the first black athlete to play Major League Baseball in the 20th Century. Jack “Jackie” Robinson would soon come to be one of the world’s most valued players in the world of Major League Baseball. This would be the beginning of a legend in the making. Robinson was born on January 31, 1919 in Cario, Georgia. Jackie was raised by a single mother and the youngest of five children, he first attended school at John Muir High School where his love for sports started to bloom. He later went off to college and attended Pasadena Junior College, where he grew into an outstanding athlete that played not one, but four sports. These sports consisted of football, basketball, track, and baseball. Jackie’s honorable accomplishments would enable him to be named the region’s Most Valuable Player in baseball in 1938. Jackie, then continued to UCLA where he would further his involvement in sports and his education. In 1941, despite his outstanding athletic and academic success, Robinson was forced to …show more content…
These awards included six All Star awards (1949-1954), World Series Champion (1955), NL MVP (1949), Major League Baseball Rookie of the Year (1947), National League Batting Champion (1949), two NL Stolen Base Leader Award (1947, 1949). Other honorable awards included having his jersey number forty-two retired by all Major League Baseball teams and he was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1962. Robinson died October 24, 1972, nine days after his appearance at the World Series, of a heart attack at his home; he was fifty-three years old. Robinson’s funeral service was held on October 27, 1972 at Upper Manhattan’s Riverside Church in Morningside Heights. An astonishing two thousand five hundred people showed up to mourn the death of the