Jackie Robinson Birthday, Real Name, Age, Weight, Height, Family, Facts, Death Cause, Contact Details, Girlfriend(s), Bio & More
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PERSONAL INFORMATION
REAL NAME
Jack Roosevelt Robinson
BIRTHDAY
BORN ON DAY
Friday
BIRTHPLACE
Cairo, Georgia, United States of America
DIED AT AGE
53 Years 8 Months 24 Days
DEATHDATE
October 24, 1972
DEATHPLACE
Stamford, Connecticut, United States of America
CAUSE OF DEATH
Heart attack
NATIONALITY
PROFESSION
ZODIAC
AQUARIUS
Physical Stats
CHEST
N/A
BICEPS
N/A
WAIST
N/A
HEIGHT
5'10''(feet & inches)
1.778 meters
177.8 cm
WEIGHT
53 kg
116.6 lbs
Jackie Robinson Family Members
BROTHER(S) NAME
Mack Robinson
SISTER(S) NAME
Fame & Address
DEBUT
MLB for the Brooklyn Dodgers (1947)
FAMOUS FROM/AS
Official Website
jackierobinson.com
Education, Net Worth & More
SCHOOLING FROM
Washington Junior High School
COLLEGE
Pasadena Junior College, The University of California at Los Angeles
QUALIFICATION
Graduation
More Information
Some Lesser Known Facts About Jackie Robinson
- Did Jackie Robinson takes alcohol? NA.
- Was Jackie Robinson in the habit of Smoking? NA.
- His middle name was inspired by the name of President Theodore Roosevelt who died 25 days before his birth.
- Besides baseball, he was also an efficient tennis player and also won the junior boys singles championship in the Pacific Coast Negro Tennis Tournament.
- He had also served in the Army Cavalry unit in Fort Riley, Kansas.
- Once he was arrested by military police on the request of a duty officer when he refused to sit in the back of an unsegregated bus. The officer requested his court-martial but in the proceedings, it was decided that he is not allowed to take the position at the battlefronts during the World War II.
- He was the first African-American baseball player in Major League.
- He had suffered many incidences of racial discrimination. Some players signed a petition to prevent him from joining the team. They want to keep him out of the squad. Pee Wee Reese helped him and protect him from violent and nasty racial slurs.
- He also works in a film "The Jackie Robinson Story which was based on his own life. He played his own character while the character of his wife was played by Academy Award-nominated female actor Ruby Dee.
- In his free time, he usually goes on a vaudeville and speaking tour of the South. He had to answer on a vaudeville and speaking tour of the South. He found it more profitable than that of contract with the Brooklyn Dodgers.
- He quit Major League Baseball due to his illness from diabetes and joined Chock Full O' Nuts coffee as the vice president of personnel.
- He was the first African-American to be placed on such a high post in a big American corporation.
- He actively participated in the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.
- He had taken many steps to eliminate racial discrimination also opened a bank "Freedom National Bank" with businessman Dunbar McLaurin. This bank was owned and operated by black people in Harlem, New York.
- His house where he lived at the time when he was a player in Brooklyn Dodgers was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1976.
- An asteroid was named "4319 Jackierobinson" as the astronomer Schelte John "Bobby" Bus who had discovered this asteroid was a big fan of him.
- His jersey number 42 also retired with him and this number is never allotted to any other baseball player after him.
- After his death, he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom which is the highest award given to a civilian.
- He was invited by Booker T. Washington to have a dinner with him at the White House.
- He had spent one night for an argument with a police officer who felt insulted when his friend started singing a popular tune called "Flat Foot Floogie."
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