Jackie Robinson and Branch Rickey both showed tremendous personal courage in the face of opposition that led to the success of “The Noble Experiment”. “The Noble Experiment” was an experiment in which Branch Rickey was trying to find the right black man to play baseball with white people. The right black man would show black people can play with white people. When Branch Rickey first started his noble experiment, he wanted to find the right man, a man that was good at baseball and one that could withstand the insults and not be provoked. When Branch Rickey first talked about his noble experiment with Jackie playing in the major leagues, Jackie had all kinds of emotions. Jackie Robinson was excited, but scared of the experiment too. Jackie
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I thought Branch Rickey showed the greatest personal courage because he was determined for black people to play m ajor league baseball even when he could have gotten hurt or even worse. An example of this from the text is this quote, “He was convinced he was morally right, and he shrewdly sensed that making the game a truly national one would have healthy financial results. He took his case before the startled directors of the club, and using persuasive eloquence, he won the first battle in what would be a long and bitter campaign. He was voted permission to make the Brooklyn club the pioneer in bringing blacks into baseball.” This quote showed the Branch Rickey was determined to bring blacks into baseball because he worked hard and was persuasive to make the directors of the club vote him permission to let the Brooklyn club to bring blacks into baseball. He had to fight a long campaign, which was also bitter, to let blacks play baseball with the white people. Another example of why Branch Rickey showed the greatest personal courage in the noble experiment was because he didn’t stop the noble experiment even when he could have gotten hurt, and when people were talking about the horrible things about what Branch Rickey was doing with his plan. A quote from the text stated, “This, of course, made blacks and prointegration whites indignant. He was accused of trying to uphold the
I thought Branch Rickey showed the greatest personal courage because he was determined for black people to play m ajor league baseball even when he could have gotten hurt or even worse. An example of this from the text is this quote, “He was convinced he was morally right, and he shrewdly sensed that making the game a truly national one would have healthy financial results. He took his case before the startled directors of the club, and using persuasive eloquence, he won the first battle in what would be a long and bitter campaign. He was voted permission to make the Brooklyn club the pioneer in bringing blacks into baseball.” This quote showed the Branch Rickey was determined to bring blacks into baseball because he worked hard and was persuasive to make the directors of the club vote him permission to let the Brooklyn club to bring blacks into baseball. He had to fight a long campaign, which was also bitter, to let blacks play baseball with the white people. Another example of why Branch Rickey showed the greatest personal courage in the noble experiment was because he didn’t stop the noble experiment even when he could have gotten hurt, and when people were talking about the horrible things about what Branch Rickey was doing with his plan. A quote from the text stated, “This, of course, made blacks and prointegration whites indignant. He was accused of trying to uphold the