Jackie Robinson, Overcoming the Odds

The year was 1947 and The American Baseball League was yet to have an African American player in its midst, but that was all about to change with the coming of Jackie Robinson. For today's blog post I found an article on The famous baseball player Jackie Robinson, the first African American ball player ever. Here is a link to the website, http://www.africanamericans.com/JackieRobinson.htm this lovely website provided me with tons and tons of uber knowledgeable facts on Jackie, and I have come to the conclusion that he is the man. Jackie played in the majors until 1956 and was loved if not initially but overtime by all of his teammates. It was than later on his life in the year 1962 that Jackie than became the first nominated black man to the Baseball hall of fame, what an accomplishment! It was than later on in 1984 that he became the second player after Roberto Clemente to ever recieve the Congressional Gold Medal, which is considered one of the most prestigious medals in baseball. After all of his baseball stuff Jackie became a prominent figure in politics and helping his community.