Jackie Robinson

Moses Fleetwood Walker played 42 games for the Toledo Blue Stockings of the American Association in 1884. The American Association, at the time, was considered a major league. Moses Walker had a brother, Welday Walker, who played 5 games for the Blue Stockings in 1884. Robinson was the first African American to play major league baseball during the 'modern era'. His career spanned 1947-1956 with the Brooklyn Dodgers.

The Kansas City Monarchs, in 1945.

Prior to that, Robinson played baseball at Pasadena Junior College before moving on to UCLA. He withdrew from UCLA to help his mother care for the family, and in 1942 he enlisted in the U.S. Army, where he stayed until receiving a medical discharge in 1945. That summer, he played for the Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro League, and on October 23, 1945 he and John Wright, also African-American, signed contracts to play for the Montreal Royals, a minor league team affiliated with the Brooklyn Dodgers. After leading that league in batting average during the 1946 season, he was brought up to play for the major league's Brooklyn Dodgers for 1947, where he played through 1956.

• yes, Jackie Robinson played in high school and college (UCLA). he also played for the Honolulu Bears and after the season with the bears he was going to play for the los angeles bulldogs; but by that time the attack on pearl harbor had happened and he was drafted to the army.

Jackie Robinson passed away from diabetes in 1972.

i do not know but his son Jackie jr is dead from a car accident

what is Jackie Robinson's religion

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Well, Jackie Robinson was the first African American in the MLB. Without him, African Americans may not be able to be part of the MLB- even today. He also inspired many African Americans to prove that they could do anything white people can.

Since 2004 Jackie Robinson Day has been recognized annually in the MLB on April 15.

Yes, MLB retired the number on April 15, 1997 in honor of the 50th anniversary of Jackie Robinson's first game in MLB. However, anyone who was wearing #42 at that time could continue to wear it until they retired. There were a few players that continued to wear the number that included Mo Vaughn of the Red Sox and Mariano Rivera of the Yankees.

In the 2009 season, only one player wears the #42 and that is Rivera. Once he retires no other MLB player will wear the #42.

Jack Roosevelt Robinson Career Statistics:

Batting Average: .311

Stolen Bases: 197

Strikeouts: 291

RBI: 734

Runs: 934

Hits: 1518

Walks: 740

Errors: 117

Home Runs: 137

Games Played: 1382

At Bats: 4877

He suffered from a heart attack and fought back but it just wasn't enough.
he was the black man to play on a white mans base ball team

No, Jackie Robinson spent his entire MLB career, 1947-1956, with the Brooklyn Dodgers.

No. He died on October 24, 1972, at 53 years old.

Jackie Robinson's first year in professional ball was 1946 when he played for the Montreal Royals, the Brooklyn Dodgers Triple-A minor league team. He played one year for Montreal and then played for the Dodgers between 1947-1956. He retired after the 1956 season.

Yes, Jackie Robinson was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1962.

No, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis passed away on May 19th, 1994 from Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a form of cancer that started in her lymph nodes. She was 64 years old at the time of her death. Time of death was at 10:15 P.M. EST, in her 5th Avenue, New York City Apartment.

This is the official version of the story. In fact, Jackie retired from public life on this day, and went to Quebec, before leaving America to live incognito abroad. It will be her 20th death anniversary, this year.

jackie robinson was brave because he went threw the racism that was going on and that the whites didn't want him to play baseball pit he still stood there like nothing and he became a famous baseball player

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Jackie Robinson was the first African American baseball player who became the first black player in the major league of baseball

Jackie Robinson had three children, Jack, Jr., David and Sharon whom produced 16 grandchildren. As of 2014, the family has increased and includes two great grandchildren.

Can't find his elementary school, but in 1935, Robinson graduated from Dakota Junior High School and then went to John Muir High School.

He did not put an end to segregation, that was President LBJ and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. who got a lot of civil rights legislation passed in the 1960's.

However, Jackie Robinson Helped to end segregation by being the first black baseball player in the major leagues-the Brooklyn Dogers in the 1950's.

Jackie Robinson was interested I baseball because it took her mind of stress and it made her think she escaped the real world and wanted to be herself if you suckers out there think this is true then your so stupid she liked it because of her boyfriend

Jackie Robinson was a Major League Baseball player who played 2nd base for the Brooklyn Dodgers. He is famous because in April of 1947, he broke baseball's color barrier by becoming the first ever African American to play in a Major League Baseball game for a Major League Baseball team.