Jackie Robinson was born January 31, 1919 and played his first Major League Baseball game on April 15, 1947 making him 28years old.
Jackie Robinson made it and encouraged others.
He first played for the negro leagues
Kansas City Monarches of the Negro Leagues
No. In the modern era, Jackie Robinson was the first African American to play in the Major Leagues.
Jackie Robinson was the first black baseball player to play in the major leagues. He played for the Dodgers, and although many boycotted he and his team held strong.
Rube Foster, owner of the Chicago American Giants and one of the most influential people in black baseball, organized the Negro League in 1920.
Robinson was 28 years old when he broke into the major leagues in April, 1947. But he had played baseball in college, in the Negro Leagues and in the International League in Montreal before that.
His first season in the major leagues was 1947.
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Jackie Robinson played EXTREMELY well, so the owner of the Dodgers accepted Jackie to be on his team.
The Brooklyn Dodgers first asked Jackie Robinson to be on their team in 1947.
brookyn dodgers
So he can raise his family right
Robinson did not pitch in the major leagues.
Jackie Robinson played one year in the Negro Leagues, 1945, and he played 47 games at shortstop for the Kansas City Monarchs.
Jackie Robinson played his first game with the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947.