Jackie Robinson

Jackie Robinson 1947 debut ticket stub sells for record 480K. His outstanding career with the Brooklyn Dodgers and his dignity in facing the insults and threats that were hurled at him broke down the racial barriers in Americas.

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The project had been previously delayed when the films producers refused to accede to demands of two Hollywood studios that the movie include scenes of Robinson being tutored in baseball by.

. After graduating from John Muir Technical High School Junior College Robinson. He famously broke the color line of Major League Baseball MLB when he appeared on the field for the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15 1947. His father deserted the family when Jackie was still a baby and Mallie moved the children to Pasadena California the following year.

Negro League data is not complete. Darren Rovell darrenrovell. They were the only black family on their block and the prejudice they encountered only strengthened their bond.

His mother Mallie Robinson single-handedly raised Jackie and her four other children. A ticket stub from Jackie Robinsons 1947 debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers set a record for the most expensive collectable ticket in history via Dan Hajducky of ESPN. Jackie Robinson is remembered as the man who broke the color barrier in major league baseball and was the first African American inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame 1962.

Hulton ArchiveGetty Images February. A baseball icon his number was retired across MLB in 1997. As portrayed in the 2013 film 42.

A ticket stub from Jackie Robinsons MLB debut 75 years ago sold for 480000. Jack Roosevelt Robinson was born in Cairo Georgia in 1919 to a family of sharecroppers. Jackie Robinson was born in Cairo Georgia on 31 January 1919 the youngest of five children born to sharecroppers Jerry and Mallie Robinson.

Green and co-starring Ruby Dee as. Jackie Robinson and Phillies manager Ben Chapman pose for a picture during the 1947 season. The Rucker ArchiveIcon Sportswire The Philadelphia Phillies franchise unfortunately wasnt always on the right side of the fight for equality in America.

Player stats do not include the extensive amount of exhibitions and barnstorming games Negro League teams often played. Negro League player stats include league games interleague games against major Negro League competition and games against select top-level independent Black Baseball teams. The year saw the release of a film biography of Robinsons life The Jackie Robinson Story in which Robinson played himself and actress Ruby Dee played Rachel Rae Isum Robinson.

In 1950 Robinson starred in The Jackie Robinson Story a biographical movie directed by Alfred E. From this humble beginning would grow the first baseball player to break Major League. Jackie Robinson the first Black baseball player to play in the American major leagues during the 20th century.

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