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Jan 31, 1919 Cairo, Georgia, United States Died on 24 Oct 1972 (aged 53)
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Jackie Robinson - Place of Birth, Date of Birth, Age, Wiki, Facts, Net Worth, Birthday, Biography and Family
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About Jackie Robinson
- Jack Roosevelt Robinson (January 31, 1919 – October 24, 1972) was an American professional baseball player who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball (MLB) in the modern era.
- Robinson broke the baseball color line when he started at first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947.
- When the Dodgers signed Robinson, they heralded the end of racial segregation in professional baseball that had relegated black players to the Negro leagues since the 1880s.
- Robinson was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962.During his 10-year MLB career, Robinson won the inaugural Rookie of the Year Award in 1947, was an All-Star for six consecutive seasons from 1949 through 1954, and won the National League Most Valuable Player Award in 1949—the first black player so honored.
- Robinson played in six World Series and contributed to the Dodgers' 1955 World Series championship. In 1997, MLB retired his uniform number 42 across all major league teams; he was the first professional athlete in any sport to be so honored.
- MLB also adopted a new annual tradition, "Jackie Robinson Day", for the first time on April 15, 2004, on which every player on every team wears No.
- 42. Robinson's character, his use of nonviolence, and his unquestionable talent challenged the traditional basis of segregation that had then marked many other aspects of American life.
- He influenced the culture of and contributed significantly to the civil rights movement.
- Robinson also was the first black television analyst in MLB and the first black vice president of a major American corporation, Chock full o'Nuts.
- In the 1960s, he helped establish the Freedom National Bank, an African-American-owned financial institution based in Harlem, New York.
- After his death in 1972, Robinson was posthumously awarded the Congressional Gold Medal and Presidential Medal of Freedom in recognition of his achievements on and off the field.
