Jackie Robinson

Miguel Garcia

11/3/14

Why is Jackie Robinson a hero?

                        Jackie Robinson is known for playing baseball but he is a hero because he broke the color barrier. This means that he was one of the African Americans who made it into a professional all white team.  Jackie Robinson’s legacy carries on because he is in museums and he’s a hall of famer.  There is a movie about Jackie Robinson called 42 that came out in 2013 showing stages of his life and how he started playing baseball and how that experience was or him. Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier on April 15 1947. Jackie Robinson was also one of the 1^st who got his job for his mental toughness because the person who hired him was looking for someone who could handle all the stress. After Jackie Robinson retired he made sure to not end his story of baseball and became vice president of chock full o’ nuts and served 10 years on the board of the NAACP.

How does his legacy carry on?

                        Jackie Robinson’s legacy carries on to this day because of how he changed baseball he helped others from the negro teams get onto professional teams. Jackie Robinson made many things possible for athletes mostly black athletes. When Jackie Robinson played on the field he asked the people to respect him as a human being because baseball at the time had been segregated for over 50 years. Jackie Robinsons 1^st season was full of a lot of raciest comments from white fans and players.