“La vida no es un espectáculo
deportivo. Si vas a pasar toda tu vida en la tribuna sólo viendo lo que sucede,
en mi opinión, estás desperdiciando tu vida.”
“Life
is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the
grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.”
Jack Roosevelt Robinson
(Cairo, Georgia, 31 de enero de 1919 – Stamford, Connecticut, 24 de octubre de
1972) fue el primer beisbolista afroamericano en ingresar a las Ligas Mayores
de Béisbol. Jugó la mayor parte de su carrera profesional para los Brooklyn
Dodgers. Además de su destacada carrera como jugador, realizó una firme
actividad política y comunitaria por la igualdad de derechos y la lucha contra
la discriminación.
Jack Roosevelt 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 him at first
base on April 15, 1947. When the Dodgers signed Robinson, they heralded the end
of racial segregation in professional baseball that had relegated black players
to the Negro leagues since the 1880s. Robinson was inducted into the Baseball
Hall of Fame in 1962.
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