Jackie Robinson Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More | Baseball-Reference.com (2024)

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Height 5′ 11″, Weight 204 lbs

Jackie Robinson / Height and weight

After playing his rookie season at first base, Robinson spent most of his career as a second baseman. He led the league in fielding among second basem*n in 1950 and 1951. Toward the end of his career, he played about 2,000 innings at third base and about 1,175 innings in the outfield and did well at both.

With Eddie Stanky entrenched at second base for the Dodgers, Robinson played his initial major league season as a first baseman.

He demanded, and got, a trade after it became obvious Robinson would be on the 1947 Dodgers. He pitched for the Pirates that year, and in '48 and '49, and for the New York Giants in '49 and '50.

Babe Ruth had 2,873 hits in his career. How tall was Babe Ruth? Babe Ruth was 6 ft 2 inches, 215 lb (188 cm, 97 kg).

Besides the long jump at Pasadena City College, Robinson ran a 9.7 100, a 21.5 220, a 48.5 440; he pole-vaulted 13 feet, had a 23.7 mark for the 220 low hurdles and ran on the 440 relay team.

Robinson switched to his natural position, 2B, in 1948. In 1949, Robinson had his greatest year. He hit . 342 to win the batting title over Stan Musial.

That's why Branca was one of Robinson's biggest supporters and friends. He ate with him when they traveled, encouraged him to partake in activities with the rest of the team, and proudly stood beside him when Robinson first took the field on opening day.

Robinson batted second and played first base. He had a single in his first at bat, in the opening inning and he hit a bases empty home run in the top of the third, off the Giants' starter, winning pitcher Dave Koslo. Vic Lombardi took the Brooklyn loss. The 10-4 Giants win is completely scored.

313 batting average, 972 runs scored, 1,563 hits and 200 stolen bases. He remained active in the game as an announcer, and also lent his support to many societal causes.

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On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson made his MLB debut in front of 26,623 fans at Ebbets field. Robinson started at first base and went hitless, but reached base on an error in the seventh and scored the eventual go-ahead run in a victory against the Boston Braves.

At Fort Riley, he was not allowed to play baseball because the coach refused to integrate the team. In 1944, after being reassigned to Camp Hood, Texas, Robinson's refusal to move to back of an Army bus at the camp led to his being court martialed.

Robinson would wear the modified helmet for the remainder of his career. Robert Crow was a plastic and reconstructive surgeon working for the Atlanta Braves in the 1970s when he invented a device that could protect players who were coming back from facial injuries.

Business leader, civil rights activist, professor, nurse, wife, and mother, Rachel Isum Robinson is a woman of enormous accomplishments, her own and those achieved jointly with her husband, Jackie Robinson, who broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball in 1947 when he played with the Brooklyn Dodgers.

In 2013, Beharie starred as Rachel Robinson, wife of Jackie Robinson (played by Chadwick Boseman), in the historical baseball feature 42. The same year, she began portraying Abbie Mills on the Fox fantasy series Sleepy Hollow, which is based on the 1820 short story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving.

Retirement and death

With his induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, in 1962, Robinson became the first Black person to be thus honored. Robinson suffered a heart attack at his home in Stamford, Connecticut, on the morning of October 24, 1972, and died shortly afterward. He was 53 years old.

While most folks are aware of Robinson's accomplishments on the baseball diamond, they might not know that he was a pretty phenomenal football player too. In fact, football might have been his best sport as a college athlete. In 1939 and 1940, he led the nation in punt return average.