1. BASEBALL:
JACKIE
ROBINSON
Rico Chen
P3 Project

2. SHORT BIOGRAPHY OF JACKIE
ROBINSON
 African-American to join 20th
century Major League
baseball
 Rookie of the Year Award
 First African-American in
the Baseball Hall of Fame
 Uniform “42” across all
teams
 African-American to receive
the Congressional Gold
Medal
 National League Rookie
of the Year Award
 National League Most
Valuable Player Award
 NAACP Spigarn Medal
 Honorary degree from
Howard University
 U.S. Postage stamp
honoring Jackie Robinson
 Presidential Medal of
Freedom
 Congressional Gold Medal
FIRST OF …… AWARDS AND HONOURS….

3. SOMEOFTHECOOLTHINGSJACKIEROBINSON
DID
 Played with the Brooklyn Dodgers
 first UCLA student to earn a varsity letter
in all four sports: baseball, basketball,
football and track.
 Uniform “42” across all teams
 The Rookie of the Year Award” renamed
as “The Jackie Robinson Award”
 US Postage stamp honouring Jackie
Robinson Award

4. SOME AMAZING STATISTICS OF JACKIE
ROBINSON’S BASEBALL CAREER
 1947 – Games played: 151; Runs: 125, Stolen Bases: 29, Batting
Average: .297
 1948 - Games played: 147; Runs: 108; Stolen Bases: 22 ; Batting
Average: .296
 1949 - Games played: 156; Runs: 122; Stolen Bases: 37; Batting
Average: .342
 1950 - Games Played: 144; Runs: 99; Stolen Bases: 12; Batting
Average: .328
 1951 - Games Played: 153; Runs: 106; Stolen Bases: 25; Batting
Average: .338
 1952 - Games Played: 149; Runs: 104; Stolen Bases: 24; Batting
Average: .308
 1953 - Games Played: 136; Runs: 109; Stolen Bases: 17; Batting
Average: .329
 1954 - Games Played: 124; Runs: 62; Stolen Bases: 7; Batting Average:
.311
 1955 - Games played: 105; Runs: 51; Stolen Bases: 12; Batting
Average: .256
 1956 - Games played: 117; Runs: 61; Stolen Bases: 12; Batting
Average: .275

5. ROBINSON’S RETIRED LIFE
 January 1956, Robinson announced his retirement
from basement at the age of 37 years old
 Active in civil rights, business, and politics
 Served as Vice President of Community Relations at
Chock Full O' Nuts
 Was the Special Assistant to New York Governor Nelson
Rockefeller
 Marched on Washington with Martin Luther King Jr. in
1963.

6. BIBLIOGRAPHY
 http://www.biographyshelf.com/jackie_robinson_biogr
aphy.html
 http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/3-27-2005-67667.asp
 http://www.biography.com/blackhistory/featured-
biography/jackie-robinson.jsp

7. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND
PLEASE REMEMBER JACKIE
ROBINSON