Personal Narrative: Jackie Robinson's Life

"A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives" yes it is me Jackie Robinson the man who has come from beginnings that some might of gave up on but not me. I was born in Cairo,Georgia in the year 1919, now growing up I didn't have the best childhood but my mother Mallie still loved me and my four other siblings. Wish I could say the same about my dad Jerry but for him work came before family so he didn't have much time for the five of us not even mother, but I didn't let that get me down. I still went out with my older brother and played ball with him, I remember when myself and him went to the local baseball field I came to watch him and his friends play but they were short a man weighing their options they decided to …show more content…
Skip ahead a few years to my college life and picture this UCLA, I used my talents there and made the best of it playing in sports like Track,Basketball and Football. I thought nothing could go wrong until my mother Mallie was having some troubles with her life at home despite UCLA offering me financial help if I stayed I still went to my Mother's aid. Soon after with the war going on I was drafted into the military and after a few months of dealing with the racism there and the bad people I asked for a discharge, I was granted my request but before I left Fort Riley, Kansas one of my fellow soldiers got word of an opening with the Kansas City Monarchs and of course I took it so with that said it was time to take my athletic talents to Kansas City. The team wasn't as good as the stories said but that was reasonable considering with the war most of the players were with the armed forces, but there was no other way to start my career at the time than with the negro league pennant races underway. We ended up winning five of six games with my help things were looking good but I had to face facts that the Monarchs were fading