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How Jackie Robinson changed baseball
How Jackie Robinson changed baseball In the early 1900’s baseball was a sport mainly played by white people. Jackie Robinson, a legendary baseball player for the Brooklyn dodgers, was the first African American player to play in the modern era of the Major League Baseball. Jackie Robinson’s career Born on January 31 1919, Jackie Robinson was a four star student athlete for Pasadena Junior College and the University of California. During his college career he was better known for football than he was for baseball, becoming a star college player with the UCLA football team. He signed with the Kansas City Monarchs of the NLB where he caught the attention of Branch Rickey then general manager of the Brooklyn dodgers who thought Jackie could be the player to break the color barrier of the MLB. At the start of his MLB career, Jackie would face harsh racism and discrimination. He would get booed by his own fans, get unfair calls from the umpire and even face threa...