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  • Jackie Robinson Branch Rickey
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    Mark Alvarez For my summer reading I read Jackie Robinson. Before Jackie was born his grandfather was a slave in a Georgia plantation. Jackie was born on January 31, 1919. After six months his father left and his dad left 4 other children for jackie's mom to support them. Jackie's mom was only thirty years old and her half-brother lived in California and she heard that the west better for her sons. she raised money by selling all of her possessions. Then she left Georgia on a train which was ver...
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  • U S Army Jackie Robinson
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    When youre in the military, youre presented a salute upon which respect and dignity imply. Unfortunately, this wasnt always the case. All of that was hastily forgotten. He barely missed a court-martial and was honorably discharged shortly thereafter (Davis 1). Would you believe that it was because he refused to move from a front seat to the rear seat of an army bus? He was a legitimate soldier in the U. S. Army. He enlisted after the Pearl Harbor bombing and was promoted to Lieutenant three year...
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  • African Americans Heavyweight Champion
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    African-Americans have been regarded as the lower caste in society by their white counterparts since they were brought to America via slave ships. African-Americans have been also been ostracized and socially persecuted by their white counterparts in the past (Jim Crow Laws) and even today. However, African-Americans are 'socially acceptable' by society for their athletic prowess and achievements in the arena of sports. How can this be? Our class has been discussing this theme all semester. This...
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  • Athletes As Role Models
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    Sports have played a major role in society since the beginning of man. From the Greeks to the present day, the influence of great athletes has been tremendous. However, today's media has enhanced sports and the people who play them traumatically. Athletes are seen all over the place, we see them in commercials, on television shows, we read about them in magazines, and we watch them on national television all of the time. Sports are some of the most watched television programs. People of all ages...
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  • Reaction The Jackie Robinson Story
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    Upon viewing the film, The Jackie Robinson Story, one can only ask the question was it really like that? Was Jackie harassed and tormented by virtually everyone but a select few. This paper will discuss the effectiveness or non-effectiveness of the film, and include ideas based on the whether or not the film accurately portrays Jackie's life story. I will not only discuss the events of his childhood but also his life as a grown individual. I should first start out by saying that in my opinion th...
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  • Major League Baseball Simon And Schuster
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    In 1947 Jackie Robinson was signed by the Brooklyn Dodgers and was the first black to do so. Before that there were separate leagues. Segregation was a big issue and Jackie made it even bigger by calling for it to stop and letting every one have a chance to show their talent. He led the path for a less difficult life for blacks, but that path had hate, misery, and pain as obstacles and only a special person like Robinson could overcome those obstacles. Jack Roosevelt Robinson was born on January...
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  • Baseball And American Popular Culture
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    Baseball is an integral part of American pop culture. Many Americans grow up with baseball, playing it before they can even count all the bases. It is glorified, taught, and fed to us. When we play baseball, we find a respect for the game. The respect we gain from playing it has turned the game into a tradition of American culture. It has formed itself into the business of professional baseball, namely major league baseball. Professional players have become recognized all over the world. They ar...
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  • Negro Leagues Black Baseball Life
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    ... law broadcasting contracts were started, teams relied almost fully on ticket sales to pay their expenses, spring training, travel, player salaries, stadium repairs, and make a profit. Attendance was always higher for winning teams, and Rickey was not alone in believing that African-American players could improve his team. The Dodgers played well with black stars like Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella, and Don Newcombe. In a 1955 interview in the Rickey Papers, Rickey said that his belief in eq...
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  • Major League Baseball First African American
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    African Americans have had a rough time trying to participate in major athletics in the past. Some sports, such as baseball took large aspirations for the athletic community to integrate black athletes into their major league sports. African Americans have made great strides in the world of sports in the United States. Sports in America show extremes in culture and its the passion to succeed that unites most of America. African American athletes have been able to participate in Americas several ...
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  • Major League Baseball Jackie Robinson
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    The treatment of minority athletes, particularly African Americans has been an issue in sports for decades. When a colored person played a so called white sport 50 tears ago they had to overcome many challenges from the public. Many people believe that discrimination is not a problem anymore, but many disagree and say it is. In 1947 Jackie Robinson walked out on a baseball field to play with the Brooklyn dodgers as the first ever African American to play in a major league baseball game. He was c...
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  • Major League Baseball World War Ii
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    Desegregation in Major League Baseball? We are the Ship, All Else the Sea? -Negro National League motto Barely two years after the end of the Civil War? a war that was fought, in part, over the enslaving of black Americans- the first baseball teams compromised entirely of black players stepped up to the plate in Brooklyn, New York. The Philadelphia Excelsior's defeated the home team, the Brooklyn Uniques, in a contest that was billed as? the championship of colored clubs? (Dungee 7). Black Ameri...
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  • Hoop Dreams Jackie Robinson
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    The poor living conditions of many black people living in the United States have created a desperate situation in which many black youths are pushed and pulled into the world of athletics, most often with disastrous consequences. A survey of black youths found that 66 % believed they could make a living playing pro-sports. 1 The fame of superstars such as Jackie Robinson, Michael Jordan, and other successful black athletes has led to an overemphasis on sports in the black community. In reality, ...
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  • Jackie Robinson Brooklyn Dodgers
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    Jack Roosevelt (Jackie) Robinson He was the first black person to ever be at bat in the Major Leagues, and made his name famous. But now, everyone seems to have forgotten this great legend. So I hope that this will refresh your memory, had if you? ve never heard of him this is what happened in his life: Born on January 31 1919 in Cairo Ga. , Jack Roosevelt (Jackie) Robinson, he was raised on the Sasser Plantation. He grew up without a father who left for Florida with another mans wife, leaving h...
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  • Jackie Robinson Baseball League
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    Breaking John Johnson Jackie Robinson Breaking the Color Barrier Jackie Robinson was an American athlete, business executive, and civil rights leader. Born in Cairo, Georgia, to a family of sharecroppers, Jack Roosevelt Robinson attended Pasadena Junior College in California and the University of California at Los Angeles. At UCLA he demonstrated exceptional athletic ability and became the first UCLA student-athlete to win varsity letters in four sports; football, basketball, baseball, and track...
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  • Jackie Robinson Major League
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    It has been over fifty years since Jackie Robinson played in his first major league game. He broke a major barrier in baseball and will always be remembered. He showed people what the game was really about and that was fun. Today players get big salaries and plenty of fame. But do they really deserve it? Many people wonder what has happened to what was Americas Pastime. Well I can tell you it is nowhere to be found in the players of today. So I poise the question, why haven t players of today fo...
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  • Blacks And Whites Negro Leagues
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    After the Civil War, even though slavery had been outlawed, there was still a great amount of tension between blacks and whites. The southern whites were bitter toward the loss of their slaves, and although the north fought for the slaves freedom, they did not want them to have equal privileges. As a result of this, segregation was born. Segregation is the seperation of two different groups, in this case, black and white people. Blacks and whites were separated in many ways such as having differ...
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  • Martin Luther King Major League Baseball
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    Jackie Robinson Jackie Robinson was one of the best players that proffesional baseball has ever seen and greatly helped major league baseball accept African American players that otherwise would not have played. Jack Roosevelt Robinson was born January 31, 1919 in Cairo, Georgia (Hill 1). Jackie's grandfather was a slave and his father a sharecropper (1). His mom and dad got a divorce when Jackie was just a baby (1). He, his mother and four siblings moved after his parents got a divorce (1). His...
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  • Make A Difference Million A Year
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    In twentieth-century America, sports became one of the most successful and exciting, but controversial cornerstones in American society. In the early years of the twentieth-century, America cheered both the players in professional baseball and the college football players at the nation s finest institutions of higher learning. As the game of baseball appealed to a greater number of Americans, its players became icons. They became role models for young children and topics of social discussion for...
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  • First African American Game Was Played
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    Baseball Baseball has been providing us with fun and excitement for more than a hundred and fifty years. The first game resembling baseball as we know it today was played in Hoboken, New Jersey, on June 19, 1846. The New York Nine beat the New York Knickerbokers that day, 2 The game was played according to rules drawn up by Alexander J. Cartwright. A survey and amateur athlete. It is a myth that Abner Doubleday 1 invented baseball. It was Alexander Cartwright, not Abner Doubleday, who first laid...
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