Sports Leadership Resource Centre: Movies
Summary: This biographical film starring baseball legend Jackie Robinson as himself, the first black major league baseball player in the 20th century. A determined man who broke the colour barrier in the major leagues. “The Jackie Robinson Story” is a straightforward account of Robinson’s lifelong battle against racism, following him from his impoverished childhood through his glory years at UCLA and on to his army experience and his playing days with the Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro Leagues, and finally depicting the tremendous challenge he faced while integrating first the Dodgers’ Montreal farm club and then the Brooklyn team itself
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