Jack Roosevelt "Jackie" Robinson (January 31, 1919 – October 24, 1972) was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) second baseman who turned into the principal African American to play in the real classes in the cutting edge era. Robinson broke the baseball shading line when the Brooklyn Dodgers began him at a respectable starting point on April 15, 1947. The Dodgers, by playing Robinson, proclaimed the end of racial isolation that had consigned dark players to the Negro groups subsequent to the 1880s. Robinson was enlisted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962.
Robinson had a remarkable 10-year baseball vocation. He was the beneficiary of the inaugural MLB Rookie of the Year Award in 1947, was an All-Star for six continuous seasons from 1949 through 1954, and won the National League Most Valuable Player Award in 1949—the primary dark player so honored. Robinson played in six World Series and added to the Dodgers' 1955 World Series title. In 1997, MLB "generally" resigned his uniform number, 42, over all real group groups; he was the main star competitor in any game to be so regarded. MLB likewise received another yearly convention, "Jackie Robinson Day", interestingly on April 15, 2004, on which each player on each group wears No. 42.
Robinson's character, his utilization of peacefulness, and his verifiable ability tested the customary premise of isolation which then stamped numerous different parts of American life. He affected the way of life of and contributed fundamentally to the Civil Rights Movement. Robinson likewise was the main dark TV examiner in MLB, and the principal dark VP of a noteworthy American company, Chock full o'Nuts. In the 1960s, he built up the Freedom National Bank, an African-American-claimed money related establishment situated in Harlem, New York. In acknowledgment of his accomplishments on and off the field, Robinson was after death recompensed the Congressional Gold Medal and Presidential Medal of Freedom.
