Characterization - Sports - Baseball Player Jackie Robinson 01

Jack Roosevelt "Jackie" Robinson was born in Cairo, Georgia on January 31, 1919 and passed away on October 24, 1972.

He was the first African-American Major League Baseball player, although not the first African-American professional baseball player in United States history. He played his career as second Baseman after first starting as first baseman.

On April 15 in 1947 Robinson's started with Major League Brooklyn Dodgers and ended years of baseball segregation.

Robinson played on six World Series teams.

His batting average was .311; he had 1.518 hits and 137 home runs.

He played for the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1947 through to 1956 and retired from baseball on January 5, 1957.

He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962 and earned six consecutive All-Star Game nominations winning several awards during his career.

In 1947, Jackie Robinson won 'The Sporting News Rookie of the Year Award' and the first 'MLB Rookie of the Year Award'.

Two years later, he was the first black player to win the National League MVP Award

On his 50th year anniversary, April 15, 1997, Major League Baseball retired Robinson's jersey number 42 across all MLB teams in recognition of his accomplishments with a ceremony at Shea Stadium.

Jackie Robinson was also successful as the first African-American Major League Baseball analyst.

In the 1960s, he an assisted in starting an African-American owned and controlled entity based in Harlem, New York--the Freedom National Bank.

Robinson was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal for his great achievements.Racheal Robinson received the Congressional Gold Medal for her husband from President George W. Bush.

In 1950, he played himself in the biographical film The Jackie Robinson Story.

In 1946, Robinson married Rachel Annetta Isum. She founded the Jackie Robinson Foundation after he died of a heart attack in 1972.

From 1957 to 1964 Robinson was the vice president for personnel at Chock full o'Nuts; he was the first black person to serve as vice president of a major American corporation.

He chaired the NAACP's million-dollar Freedom Fund Drive in 1957, and served on their board until 1967.

In 1964 he became one of six national directors for Nelson Rockefeller's Republican presidential campaign and later became special assistant for community affairs when Rockefeller was re-elected governor of New York in 1966.

In 1970, Robinson established the Jackie Robinson Construction Company to build housing for families with low incomes.

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