Jackie Robinson Braking The Color Barrier in The Major...

â€Å"Hey Jackie, you should play baseball.† Jackie Robinson had no intention to play baseball. Jackie Robinson had to deal with many racial comments and put downs, but Jackie never gave up and ended up as a Major League hero. Jackie played many sports in high school and he was good at all of them. He lettered in every sport he played in high school. After high school, he didn’t have any intention to play sports anymore. Jackie actually enlisted in the army. He served two years and he ranked second lieutenant. Jackie’s army career ended really short compared to many other veterans. Jackie had to go to court for his objections against racial discrimination. After that jumble was done, Jackie came home and played For the Kansas City Monarchs,†¦show more content†¦Many other players in the Negro League wanted to follow his steps, to one day be as famous as Jackie was. Robinson’s celebrity set the stage for civil rights advantages society wide. Jackie ’s own rights activism was not just about baseball. Jackie had defied an order by a white bus driver to move to the back of the bus to make room for a white officer. This was 11 years before Rosa Parks had her incident on the bus. Jackie had to go to court for this incident. The army sent him a medical discharge for this incident. â€Å"Robinson’s gusty action foreshadowed subsequent baseball diamond conduct,† was said by John Vernon in the spring 2008 issue of the United States National Archives publication. There were other aspects of Jackie’s civil rights activism bracketed him with the Dodgers and continued until his death from diabetes and other heart issues at the young age of fifty-three (Sirs, 2008). Jackie’s death was a tragic event that crushed many people’s hearts who loved baseball. Michael Long, who was an associate professor of religion at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania, stressed much that same points in his new book, Fi rst Class Citizenship: The Civil Rights Letters of Jackie Robinson (Danneheisser, 2008 ). More than 100 Major League players will wear the number 42 on their uniforms in honor of the anniversary of Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier in the national pastime. In 2007, the number 42 was retired in memory of Jackie. In 2007,