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Baseball Hall of Famer Jackie Robinson baseball more than any other player – not by skill alone, but by who he was as a person. probably changed
ack “Jackie” Roosevelt Robinson was born in rural Georgia in 1919. His _________________ were sharecroppers, whose lives were not much better than those of his enslaved grandparents. When Jackie was one year old, his father left the family, leaving his mother to _________ five children alone. His mother took the family and her __________ for a better life to Pasadena, CA, where her brother lived. But things weren’t always good there either.
Jackie could only go to the ___________ pool one day a week. He had to sit in a segregated _____________ at the movie theater. Their white neighbors cursed the Robisons and even threw rocks at them. Why? Because of the __________ of their skin. In Jackie Robinson’s life, he _________________ many people who were ________________ against Black people. They felt that Black people should not have the same __________ as white people.
hen Jackie started school he found something he was very good at—sports. He liked to play hard. He liked to win. He found out that by winning in sports he got respect from the white children. He liked this feeling and vowed he would always work hard to gain respect.
The baseball knocked some words out of this story. Find where each word belongs.
y the time he was in high school, Jackie led the football, basketball, baseball, and track teams. In 1938, when he was a student at Pasadena Junior College, Jackie led his college teammates to victory in a track meet and a baseball game held 40 miles apart on the same day!
Standards Link: Civics: Know instances in which political conflict in the U.S. has been divisive and reasons for this division [e.g., civil rights struggles].
Help Jackie get to the baseball game from the track meet.
© Vicki Whiting October 2025
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