Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Times of Jackie Robinson Jackie Robinson began his sports career in high school, playing sports like track, basketball and football (“The Life of Jackie Robinson”). Jackie suffered many injustices during his professional career, but kept playing anyways. After he retired, Jackie was involved in many civil rights movements. Jackie’s legacy will always be remembered and honored. Jackie Robinson was an outstanding baseball player, an amazing civil rights leader, and an American hero. Jackie…

inequality has been around since slavery was abolished. Two examples of black people who had this struggle during their time are Jackie Robinson and Rosa Parks. Jackie Robinson was the first african american baseball player in the MLB. Rosa Parks refused to give her seat to a white man and became a paragon of the civil rights movement. Similar to the BLM movement, both Jackie Robinson’s entrance into the MLB and Rosa Park’s refusal to submit to a white person’s command display a protest against…

“It is hard to beat a person who never gives up.” –Babe Ruth. This is a famous quote that Babe Ruth said. Baseball is a very interesting sport. The founders is Abner Doubleday, he founded it in 1839. It is still to this day one of the most famous sport in America.3 top rules in baseball is 3 strikes you’re out , 4 balls is a walk, and foul balls. Strikes are 1 of the pitches that can be called in game. Strikeouts are when 3 strikes are called. In a game you cannot argue strikes or you will be…

just live to survive. This essay will use the life stories of various people to support this quote and its meaning. Jackie Robinson is a major example of not living safe and good. He took a chance when he played baseball in the all white league.Jackie played baseball even though it was very dangerous to play as a black (Scott). During the time blacks didn’t play baseball so Jackie could have been seriously hurt by the whites. He didn't have to play but he took a chance to be the first black to…

Jackie & ME Author Dan Gutman’s life started off on October 19, 1955. At age 61 now he has no wife or children. He has written a lot of books that I like and read. Dan got his education at Rutgers University. Over his lifetime he is one of the best authors, and has won quite a bit of awards. Summary The main character of this book is Joe Stoshack. He has special powers that he travel back to time with baseball cards. He loved baseball and had a bit of a temper, that can get in his way…

“A minute of pain is worth a lifetime of glory,” - Louis Zamperini. Wise words to live by for a man. Louis was a United States Olympic distance runner and a United States prisoner of war survivor of World War II. Louis was born on January 26,1917 in Olean, New York. Louis had trouble with the law before his big track career. Once Louis cleaned up his act, he ran track for Torrance High School in California. In 1934, Zamperini set the national high school mile record with a time of 4:21.2, his…

When one gets ready in the morning, what clothes they choose to wear, and whom they choose for friends are all decided by one underlining factor; culture. Different cultures create laws of life in which its followers think they need to abide by. Certain cultures, however, can be intimidating if a person is not familiar with it; it can even be intimidating to someone who is apart of this culture. Chaim Potok’s The Chosen showcases the building of a friendship that will try to outlast all the…

“Life is not a spectator sport,if you're going to spend your life in the grandstands just watching what goes on in my opinion you’re wasting your life.(jackie robinson).” This was a quote said by Jackie Robinson. ,meaning to not sit around and life pass you by,to live in the moment. He was born 1919 january 31 in cairo Georgia. He was born with a mom and a dad a sharecroppers . there names where mallie and jerry Robinson. They said a couple of month later his father left with the neighbors wife…

1. Bibliography: Green, Shawn and McAlpine, Gordon. The Way of Baseball. New York, New York: Simon and Schuster Paperbacks, 2011. 224 pages 2. Title: The title is The Way of Baseball. It is significant because it tells you about baseball and how you can find stillness and what to do when you have found stillness. 3. Characters: Shawn Green is the protagonist who plays in the MLB some of his personality traits would be hard working, frustrated, and ambitious. Some of his physical characteristics…

play. Jackie Robinson had a tough childhood when he was young. He was born in 1919 in Cairo, GA. He was born the youngest of his brothers and sisters. He had three brothers and two sisters. And he was the youngest out of all five of them. Jackie Robinson always learned life lessons from his older brothers. Everyone took really good care for each other. For an example, if one of the brothers were getting beaten up, then the whole family would come and help the one brother. Jackie…