[DOC] [TLE] Jackie Robinson - Wikipedia [PAR] Jack Roosevelt "Jackie" Robinson (January 31, 1919  October 24, 1972) was an 
American professional baseball second baseman who became the first African 
American to play in Major League Baseball (MLB) in the modern era. Robinson 
broke the baseball color line when the Brooklyn Dodgers started ... With the track 
and field squad, he won awards in the broad jump. [DOC] [TLE] History of the Brooklyn Dodgers - Wikipedia [PAR] The Brooklyn Dodgers were an American baseball team that was active in the 
major leagues ... The Grays won the league title after the Camden Merritt club 
disbanded on July .... He also brought Reds voice Red Barber to Brooklyn as the 
Dodgers' lead ... They won six pennants in those 10 years with the help of 
Robinson,... [DOC] [TLE] Historic Context - Reel American History - Films - List [PAR] She thus, seeking a better life for Jackie and his four older siblings, joined ... 
During that spring he also won the Southland Class A title with a long jump of 23 
feet 1 inch. ... Jackie continued his athletic endeavors at Pasadena Junior 
College after .... for Brooklyn Dodgers' training camp to play in white baseball, 
eight years... [DOC] [TLE] Brooklyn Dodgers 1947 | The Pop History Dig [PAR] Jun 29, 2011 ... He had made his major league debut with the Dodgers at Brooklyn's ... Years 
later Robinson would tell Roger Kahn: After Pee Wee came over .... The 
following year he scored 99 runs as the Dodgers won their first ... In 1940, 
Robinson won the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championship long jump event,
... [DOC] [TLE] Robinson a Baseball Star? That's Only a Quarter of Story - latimes [PAR] Mar 31, 1997 ... Years before Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color barrier, he ... Robinson 
competed in the broad jump (before it became the long jump) almost as an 
afterthought. ... 25 feet 6 1/2 inches, and at UCLA he won the NCAA 
championship. ... Duke Snider, later to become a teammate on the Brooklyn 
Dodgers,... [DOC] [TLE] Jackie Robinson | HistoryNet [PAR] On the track team, he won PCC and NCAA broad jump competitions. ... Robinson 
joined the U.S. Army and was promoted to second lieutenant but never saw 
combat. ... that year, and Jackie reigned as the International League batting 
champion, ... time with Montreal and later with the Brooklyn Dodgers when he 
became the... [DOC] [TLE] Jackie Robinson | Society for American Baseball Research [PAR] He won major-league baseball's first official Rookie of the Year award and was ... 
on the Dodgers, called him the best he ever saw at getting called safe after being 
... the NCAA long-jump title and probably would have gone to the 1940 Olympics 
... After his discharge, Robinson had joined the Kansas City Monarchs of the... [DOC] [TLE] Congressional Record, Volume 149 Issue 140 (Tuesday, October 7 ... [PAR] Oct 7, 2003 ... (3) In 1947, Jackie Robinson was signed by the Brooklyn Dodgers and became 
the ... field in his first season, he won the National League's Rookie of the Year 
Award. .... And after he retired, he was elected to the Hall of Fame. ..... but he still 
managed to win the NCAA title in the broad jump (24' 10\1/4\") as... [DOC] [TLE] Black History Month - Sparta Community Unit School District #140 [PAR] In 1940 Angelou moved with her mother to San Francisco and worked ... After the 
American Civil War Langston moved to Washington, D.C., practiced law, and ..... 
He joined the Dodgers in 1948 and was their regular catcher from 1949 until an 
... She won the AAU outdoor high-jump championship for the next nine years,... [DOC] [TLE] UCLA Celebrates Jackie Robinson Day - UCLABruins.com | UCLA ... [PAR] Apr 15, 2014 ... Nov 7 All Day ... UCLA Athletics Joins LGBT SportSafe Founders Club ... 
Robinson posted a .097 batting average the one year he played baseball for the 
Bruins. ... Brooklyn Dodger President Branch Rickey signed him to a minor ... the 
NCAA title in the broad

Question: In 1940 he won the NCAA title in the broad jump; 7 years later, he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers
Answer: Jackie Robinson