Did Robinson do anything noteworthy in the military? We still had a draft back then, so there isn't much point mentioning him if he was just one of the long list of famous or later to become famous men who were called up and served their years.
IIRC not really, but Jackie was specifically chosen to be the one to break the color barrier aka Rosa Parks because he was the best player in the Negro Leagues + a stand up man.
The reason it was specifically the Brooklyn Dodgers is also racially motivated, because ironically that was the club the Triple Parentheses Gang supported in NYC, so the Dodgers’ ownership thought that he’d receive less discrimination on the Dodgers and the players would be more accepting of it
Did Robinson do anything noteworthy in the military? We still had a draft back then, so there isn't much point mentioning him if he was just one of the long list of famous or later to become famous men who were called up and served their years.
IIRC not really, but Jackie was specifically chosen to be the one to break the color barrier aka Rosa Parks because he was the best player in the Negro Leagues + a stand up man.
The reason it was specifically the Brooklyn Dodgers is also racially motivated, because ironically that was the club the Triple Parentheses Gang supported in NYC, so the Dodgers’ ownership thought that he’d receive less discrimination on the Dodgers and the players would be more accepting of it