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Jackie Robinson. Jackie Robinson embodies the romanticism by going against the law by trying out for an all-white baseball team where they say no blacks allowed. Jackie Robinson was the first African-American to play major league baseball. He had a batting average off .311. Back in John Muir High School and Pasadena Junior College Jackie was an excellent athlete. He played four sports: football, basketball, track, and baseball. He was named the region's Most Valuable Player in baseball in 1938.

Jackie graduated high school then attended at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he became the university's first student to win varsity letters in four sports. Then he was forced to leave the school due to financial aid, moving to Hawaii playing football but he really couldn’t finish because of WW II. He also joined the army becoming 2^nd lieutenant. After his discharge at 1944, he began playing professional baseball during the period where the white’s and the colored played in separate leagues.

Robinson began playing in the Negro Leagues, but he was presently chosen by Branch Rickey president of the Brooklyn Dodgers, to help integrate major league baseball. Jackie played with the Montreal Royals a farm team for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1946. During his games he would be threatened or his family would have been too because they despised having a black man playing for an all - white team. Even his team hated that he played but Jackie continued working hard and playing. Robinson had an outstanding start with the Royals, leading the International League with a .349 batting average and .985 fielding percentage.

That’s when Jackie got promoted to play for the dodger in 1947 that when he actually became the 1^st African American to play in the league. See Jackie Robinson Embodies the trandscenestalism era way to pushing his limits and working hard in all areas ignoring others' and reaching his dreams

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Jackie Robinson did just more than baseball