"I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me. All I ask is that you respect me as a human being."

 

STATS
YEAR
 G AB H 2B 3B HR TB R RBI BB AVG
1947
 151 590 175 31 5 12 252 125 48 74 .297
1948

147

574

170

38

8

12

260

108

85

57

.296
1949
 156 593 203 38 12 16 313 122 124 86 .342
1950
 144 518 170 39 4 14

259

 99 81 80 .328
1951
 153 548 185 33 7 19 289 106 88 79 .338
1952
 149 510 157 17 3 19 237 104 75 106 .308
1953
 136 484 159 34 7 12 243 109 95 74 .329
1954
 124 386 120 22 4 15 195 62 59 63 .311
1955
 105 317 81 6 2 8 115 51 36 61 .256
1956
 117 357 98 15 2 10 147 61 43 60 .275
TOTAL 1382 4877 1518 273 54 137 2310 947 734 740 .311

STORY
Jack Roosevelt "Jackie" Robinson (January 31, 1919 – October 24, 1972) was the first African-American Major League Baseball player of the modern era. Although not the first African-American professional baseball player in United States history, Robinson's 1947 Major League debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers ended approximately 60 years of baseball segregation, breaking the baseball color line, or color barrier. At that time in the United States, many white people believed that blacks and whites should be kept apart in many aspects of life, including sports. Despite this obstacle, Robinson went on to have an exceptional baseball career.