Sports Heroes Who Served: Baseball Great Jackie Robinson Was WWII Soldier
Feb. 9, 2021 | BY David Vergun , DOD News
Sports Heroes Who Served is a series that highlights the accomplishments of athletes who served in the U.S. military.
Jack Roosevelt Robinson — better known as Jackie Robinson — was born in Cairo, Georgia, on Jan. 31, 1919, the same month former President Theodore Roosevelt died. That's how he got his middle name.
Baseball great Jackie Robinson poses for a photo.
In 1920, his father, a sharecropper, left the family. Robinson's mother and her six children moved to Pasadena, California, where she worked at a variety of jobs to support the family. But they lived in poverty.
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