Research paper 2/9/10

Jackie Robinson

I really enjoy watching baseball. i used to live in michigan, so i am a Detroit Tigers fan. what interests me about this topic is that i think Jackie Robinson was not only one of the greatest baseball players but was also a great individual. he was the first african american major league baseball player. over ten seasons he played in six world series and six all-star games. his MLB debut was April 15th, 1947 for the Brooklyn Dodgers. i wanted to write about Jackie Robinson because a lot of people today don't know who he is or what he has done. His major league debut brought an end to segregation that lasted sixty years. Robinson brought the style of the Negro Leagues with him. He transformed the game from a static, power-oriented one to the more dynamic mixture of speed with power. Throughout the history of baseball there have been many legendary and talented athletes to play the game and Jackie Robinson is one of them. Through racism, hatred, and skepticism he stepped up to the plate in every sense of the word and became the first black professional baseball player in history.