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On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson stepped onto Ebbets Field for his first game with the Brooklyn Dodgers. It was the beginning of an unparalleled career in baseball. At the end of his explosive ten years as a Dodger, his record included a .311 batting average, 137 home runs, 734 runs batted in, and 197 stolen bases.
Oct 29, 2009 · Jackie Robinson was born on January 31, 1919, in Cairo, Georgia, to a family of sharecroppers. He was the youngest of five children. After his father abandoned the family in 1920, they moved to ...
Robinson, Jackie. January 31, 1919 to October 24, 1972. Jackie Robinson, the first African American to play major league baseball, used his prestige as a star athlete to garner support for the civil rights movement. Following his retirement from baseball in 1957, Robinson often appeared with Martin Luther King at rallies, fundraising events ...
Robinson joined the Montreal Royals, the Dodgers top farm team, in 1946 and led the International League with a .349 average and 40 stolen bases. He earned a promotion to the Dodgers and made his National League debut on April 15, 1947, as Brooklyn's first baseman. “It was the most eagerly anticipated debut in the annals of the National ...
Apr 13, 2018 · Jackie Robinson became the first African American to play in the Major Leagues on April 15, 1947, when he took the field in the top of the first inning against the Boston Braves. When Robinson ...
Nov 14, 2022 · Nov 14, 2022. BY Louis Moore. In August 1962, Martin Luther King Jr. wrote a public letter congratulating Jackie Robinson on his recent induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame. More than just a ...
Apr 30, 2022 · Jackie Robinson Was Born in Georgia. Hulton Archive/Getty Images; Bettmann Archive/Getty Images. Picture of Jackie Robinson as a young child, left. Robinson as a Brooklyn Dodger, right.
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