In the 1949 season, Jackie had his best average of his career, which was .342, an outstanding feat to accomplish in the Major Leagues.

In 1952,he had his best On base percentage of his career, which was .440.

He had a total of 1382 games played in his 10 year career.

He had 4877 at bats, in which 137 of those at bats he hit a homerun.

Jackie had a career total of 197 stolen bases.

He also had 1518 career hits.

He scored 947 times out of his 4877 at bats.

He had a total of 734 runs batted in.

Pitchers walked him 740 times in his career.

Jackie Robinson (1919-1972)

Jackie Robinson is reporting to the Brooklyn Dodgers from his minor league team the Montreal Royals in 1947.

Jackie Robinson received many threatening letters from various groups of people. This is one of the more threatening pieces of mail that he received. As you can see this group referred to themselves as " The Travelers."

Jackie Robinson is signing one of the most influential documents in American history. Branch Rickey( Right) was criticized by many of the other managers in the Major League for signing a black man to play with his team. By signing Jackie Robinson, he not only aquired one of the greatest players in the game's history, he opened up the door for many other races to not only play Major League Baseball, but all the other proffessional sports as well.