The Role Of Jackie Robinson: Breaking The Color Barrier In Professional Baseball

“Be the change that you want to see in the world”~ Ghandi. Jackie Robinson saw a problem in the world that’s gone unsolved for quite some time now. Professional baseball has been a white man’s game for a while now. Robinson wanted to break the color barrier in professional baseball, so he went on to try out for the Brooklyn Dodgers and he did start to play. Robinson was treated as less than human whenever he made an appearance, but he did not abscond from his problems, he fought to surmount them. As other whites started jeering Robinson when he stepped onto the field, he ignored them and kept playing the game which led to the way our world is today. Robinson is now remembered as one of the greatest to ever play the game, not only because