Jackie Robinson: A Famous Baseball Player

Words: 259
Pages: 2

Robinson was one of the greatest baseball players ever to be known. He was special in very own way. Jackie was the very first African American to ever have played for an all-white team. His number 42 has a special meaning due to his ability in the field Jackie Robinson was born January 31, 1919 in Cairo, GA. There he lived for a while but shortly after moved to Pasadena Cali, which there attended john Muir high school. He was the youngest out of five children. One of Jackie’s brothers was very athletic that he went on to win a silver medal in the 200 meter right behind Jesse Owens in the summer Olympics in Berlin Germany, so athleticism ran in the family. Jackie at 23 was drafted into the army where there he meets Joe Louis a champion