For his Baseball career, he was named 1947 NL Rookie of the Year and 1949 NL Most Valuable Player. He was selected to the NL All Star team 6 times.
Non-Baseball:
1) In 1956 he was awarded the Spingrn Medal by the NAACP for the highest achievement by an African American.
2) In 1976 his home was declared a National Historic Landmark.
3) In 1984 President Reagan awarded him, posthumously, the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
4) The high school he attended in California named its football field after him.
5) UCLA, where he attended college, named its baseball stadium after him.
6) He was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal by the U.S. Congress in 2003.
7) He was inducted into the California Hall of Fame in 2007.
8) in 1947 Robinson won the National League Rookie of the Year
The Rookie of the Year award was introduced in 1947. The first person to win it was Jackie Robinson, for reasons unrelated to the color of his skin.
Robinson won the Rookie of the Year award and the Most Valuable Player award during his career. He was also elected to the Hall of Fame.
Robinson did not pitch in the major leagues.
Jackie Robinson is a generous baseball player that joined the neegro leagues. he tried his best to win with his team.
That was 1949 when he hit .342. He was named National League MVP that season.
Jackie robinson was the first african american to play in the major leagues and win the first major league game
The 1968 National League rookie of the year winner was Johnny Bench. You can only win the rookie of the year one time. Your rookie season.
5-3 games where won when jackie was in the dodgers
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Jackie Robinson was the first African American to play major league baseball. He played for the Brooklyn Dodgers and helped them win a World Series and a number of pennants.
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Jackie Robinson showed teamwork by telling the team that they are going to make and win that game against that team they are going against. That's how he showed Teamwork.