ackie Robison became the first African American athlete play major league baseball game. #2 Jackie Robison started his professional athletic career in football. in 1941 he played briefly with the Honolulu bears & the los Angeles. Both teams were part of the Pacific coast league during an area when black players were explicitly banned from NFL. #3 In 1945 Jackie Robison signed on with the Kansas city monarchs baseball team, the Negro American team.

#4 sixty years ago Jackie Robinson became the first professional baseball player in North America to cross over from black to white baseball when he joined the Montreal Royals, a farm team of the Brooklyn Dodgers. A year later, Robinson was moved into the Dodger lineup at second base, a …show more content…
While playing shortstop with the Kansas Monarchs, a baseball team in the Negro Leagues, Robinson attracted the attention of Branch Rickey, At the time, black players were Dodgers in their own league and were not allowed to play on the same team as while players, Rickey had a plan to bring black players into the major leagues, which he thought would both help his team and bring more fans to the games. He believed Robinson was the man to break through baseball's color.( Lusted, Marcia ) #8 Rickey knew that there would be a problem with a black person and with all the hater and it was a white team He needed to be sure that he could handle all the racial and hate taunts and slurs that would come his way. He called Robinson to a three-hour meeting where he yelled insults at him and threatened him. Jackie refused to become angry. Instead, he asked Rickey if he wanted a player who would fight back. #9During 1947, Robinson made history by signing with the Brooklyn Dodgers, the first black player ever to join a major league team. He endured many bitter personal attacks, vicious verbal abuse from people in the stands, players who aimed baseballs at his head or kicked him, and teams that refused to play against the