Los Angeles Dodgers

The Los Angeles Dodgers is a professional baseball team that is a part of the Major League Baseball (MLB). The team is originally from Brooklyn, New York, and the name “dodgers” originated from people who were trying to dodge the trolleys in Brooklyn (Los Angeles Dodgers: Timeline). When the Brooklyn Dodgers came under new ownership of Walter O’Malley, he decided to move the team to Los Angeles, where the Dodgers played at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum for four years. In 1962, the Los Angeles Dodgers moved to Chavez Ravine, also known Dodger Stadium, which is the third oldest Major League ballpark in North America. Between Brooklyn and Los Angeles, the franchise has won 6 World Series titles, accumulated 13 Most Valuable Players and 17…

In 1959, Chavez Ravine, a small rural community found just north of the heart of Los Angeles, was gravely disrupted as it’s occupants were displaced to make way for construction of the Dodgers Stadium. There is no doubt that the decision to build a new stadium on the site of the former area caused serious repercussions for the newly arrived Los Angeles Dodgers,their owner Walter O’Malley, and the predominantly Mexican-American community forced to leave and relocate their homes and lives…

Jackie Robinson made history in 1947 when he broke baseball’s color barrier to play for the Brooklyn Dodgers. A talented and versatile player, Robinson won the National League Rookie of the Year award his first season and helped the Dodgers to the National League championship – the first of his six trips to the World Series. In 1949 Robinson won the league MVP award, and he was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962. Despite his skill, Robinson faced a barrage of insults and threats…

In 1940 he also won the Pacific Coast Conference broad jump competition with a jump of 25 feet, and won the National Collegiate Championship in that event. Robinson played shortstop in his first professional baseball job. When the 1946 season came to close, Robinson went on a barnstorming tour with a team he made up of other leading black players, and when the weather turned too cold to play baseball, he signed to play basketball with the Los Angeles Red Devils to stay in shape. He also led the…

On this day in 1947, Jackie Robinson, age 28, becomes the first African-American player in Major League Baseball when he steps onto Ebbets Field in Brooklyn to compete for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Robinson broke the color barrier in a sport that had been segregated for more than 50 years. Exactly 50 years later, on April 15, 1997, Robinson’s groundbreaking career was honored and his uniform number, 42, was retired from Major League Baseball by Commissioner Bud Selig in a ceremony attended by over…

The number 42 was Jackie Robinson’s jersey for the Dodgers which is now retired. Jackie Robinson was a great athlete. Jackie Robinson was the first African American to play major league baseball during his time in major league baseball completely changing the way people looked at the game. Jackie Robinson was born January 31, 1919, in Cairo, Georgia. He was born into a family of five kids, he was raised in a relative poverty by his mom who was single. Matthew Robinson, his brother, inspired…

The leader I chose is Jackie Robinson. Jackie Robinson was an African American man who erased the color line by allowing African Americans an opportunity to play sports no matter what was said. Jackie Robinson was born in Cairo, GA. Robinson went to school at Washington Middle School, John Muir High school, Pasadena City college, and ending with University of California, Los Angeles. Robinson’s occupation was an American Major League Baseball Second Baseman. He originally started out with the…

In college Ray Bartlett was Jackie’s best friend who introduced him to his future girlfriend Rachel Isum.(Robinson 10). Jackie’s baseball carrer started out in Montreal when he played for a AAA team which is a semi pro team. (Robinson 53). Jackie was signed to the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947 by Branch Rickey (the Dodgers owner).(Robinson 29) In 1949 Jackie won the National Leauge MVP in 1949. (Robinson 48) Jackie played two thirds of the games in 1955. (Robinson 78). Jackie…

Jackie Robinson: First Black Baseball All-Star Thesis statement -- Jackie Robinson’s childhood was tough, but he was very athletic. He was good at many different sports. I learned about his baseball success and the segregation he went through. He changed the lives of others and encouraged many other colored people to join the Major Leagues like he did. Jackie Robinson was born on January 31, 1919 in Cairo Georgia. Early life for Jackie was tough, at 6 months old his dad left and never came…

Who was the first person to break the Major League Baseball color barrier? Jackie Robinson was the first African American to play in Major League Baseball. Busting through many obstacles such as segregation. Through all that he set the example that color or race did not matter and that you could be what you want to be no matter what color. So he changed the game of baseball by being the first African American to play in Major League Baseball. Jackie Robinson was born on January 3,1919 in Cairo,…