Jackie Robinson
Jack Roosevelt Robinson (January 31, 1919 – October 24, 1972) was an American expert baseball player who turned into the primary African American to play in Major League Baseball (MLB) in the cutting edge time. Robinson broke the baseball shading line when the Brooklyn Dodgers began him at a respectable starting point on April 15, 1947. At the point when the Dodgers marked Robinson, they proclaimed the finish of racial isolation in expert baseball that had consigned dark players to the Negro alliances since the 1880s. Robinson was accepted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962.
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Robinson had a remarkable 10-year MLB profession. He was the beneficiary of the debut MLB Rookie of the Year Award in 1947, was an All-Star for six back to back seasons from 1949 through 1954, and won the National LeagueMost Valuable Player Award in 1949—the main dark player so honored.[5][6] Robinson played in six World Seriesand added to the Dodgers' 1955 World Series title.
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In 1997, MLB resigned his uniform number 42 over all real group groups; he was the main genius competitor in any game to be so respected. MLB additionally received another yearly custom, "Jackie Robinson Day", out of the blue on April 15, 2004, on which each player in each group wears No. 42.
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Robinson's character, his utilization of peacefulness, and his certain ability tested the conventional premise of isolation which at that point checked numerous different parts of American life. He affected the way of life of and contributed essentially to the social liberties development. Robinson likewise was the principal dark TV examiner in MLB and the main dark VP of a noteworthy American enterprise, Chock full o'Nuts.
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During the 1960s, he built up the Freedom National Bank, an African-American-possessed money related organization situated in Harlem, New York. After his passing in 1972, in acknowledgment of his accomplishments on and off the field, Robinson was after death granted the Congressional Gold Medal and Presidential Medal of Freedom