Baseballs Legend Imagine yourself in the stands of a baseball game on a spring day. The crowd cheering and the smell of popcorn in the air. The year is 1947 in the city of Brooklyn, New York and you’re about to see history in the making. For the first time in history a black man takes the plate. By this doing he is about to break the social status of the black man. But not …showed first 75 words of 1053 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1053 total…spoke out about how blacks were treated in society. He opened up the doors for future atheles like himself. He showed the world that greatness can come from different backgrounds. Although many consider him to be a black man playing in a white mans game, he still stood up to the challenges that was thrown at him. Jackie Robinson went down in history as a great baseball player but he was also a great man.