Draft Dodger Rag

Robinson also served in the military prior to his time in Major League Baseball. After playing for the Monarchs Robinson was sent to play for the Montreal Royals. The Royals were the farm club for the Brooklyn Dodgers. After playing for the Royals he was brought up to the Dodgers main roster shortly before the beginning of the 1947 baseball season. As he was the first black player to start in Major League Baseball in six…

plot, and the consistent “personal relationship” theme. Of all the characters throughout the film, Branch Rickey, Jackie Robinson, Rachel Robinson, and Wendell Smith are the few that stick out. Branch Rickey, the general manager for the Brooklyn Dodgers, appears to be the type of person who doesn’t let the potential consequences get in the way…

Walter Jerry Payton was born on July twenty-fith, 1954 in Columbia, Mississippi to Peter and Alyne Payton. As a child, Walter spent plenty of his time outdoors and enjoying sports along with his siblings Eddie and Pam Payton. He attended John Jefferson highschool and later Columbia highschool, where he played football for 3 years. When he graduation, Walter chose to follow within the footsteps of his older brother Eddie and played football at Jackson State University in Jackson, Mississipi. He…

being that I am a Chinese woman who was raised in a large Jewish/Catholic family. Ultimately, I chose this movie because I’m passionate about baseball and my family and I are from Brooklyn, New York which is the team Robinson played for prior to the Dodgers moving to Los Angeles in the 1950s. I found that finding a movie that accounts both a city and a sport that are incredibly profound to me and fulfills this assignment was more than optimal. Although this movie has flaws and some audiences may…

Angela’s Ashes Analysis Sometimes people are born into deplorable situations. In Frank McCourt’s Angela’s Ashes, he describes his everyday life growing up and how it was hard for him as a child because of the situation he was born into. In this memoir, McCourt focuses on the fact that he grew up in poverty and how it was not the ideal living situation. However, poverty did not keep him from achieving his goal of moving to America to have a better life. Frank McCourt’s memoir, Angela’s Ashes,…

Pain and Sacrifice A marathon is a work of art. Months and even years of training are required. It is something that is seen as a great accomplishment. Something that takes heart, pride, and determination. It’s no easy feat, and death may even be a result. Life in the 20th century was like no other. A time where life was different for everyone. The US was seeking change and it definitely wasn’t wanted. Racially our country was struggling to find its identity. It was lost. Our constitution…

The Gamby Foundation was started in honor of the legacy that Geatano "Gamby" Gambardella left behind at the Little League and community of Rolando, California. Gamby started at Rolando Little League with his first son in 1954. He managed his second sons' team from 1968 - 1972, where his team won the Coast League the first time he ever managed a team. He remained active in the league as a manager in every division except T-Ball until 1990. While managing his teams, he was also active as a…

At the end of WWII Jackie finished his job as second lieutenant. That position made him a leader that people could rely on. He started looking for a job luckily, he remembered Alexander a Negro League player. According to Encyclopedia of African American Society, it stated that, “Upon Alexander's advice, Robinson contacted Kansas City. The team signed him to a contract that paid $400 a month.” Earning money and playing the sport he loved was his motive. That kicked his career as a…

Despite the of allowing controversy of allowing people of color into the MLB, who were the major people who possibly made the Negro Leagues known as well as who made it a major topic. We all know that a guy named Jackie Robinson was the first African-American player to play in the MLB with other so called races mainly white. You not only have the first black player in the MLB, you also have the first black manager. His name was “John Jordan O’Neill aka Frank Robinson, who had became the first…

On this day in 1947, Jackie Robinson, age 28, becomes the first African-American player in Major League Baseball when he steps onto Ebbets Field in Brooklyn to compete for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Robinson broke the color barrier in a sport that had been segregated for more than 50 years. Exactly 50 years later, on April 15, 1997, Robinson’s groundbreaking career was honored and his uniform number, 42, was retired from Major League Baseball by Commissioner Bud Selig in a ceremony attended by over…