The movie “42” is about a young African-American baseball player who started his pro career in the Negro League and later was picked up by a courageous Branch Rickey, former   general manager/ currently in the baseball Hall of fame, decided to bring an African-American into Major League Baseball. He put Robinson in the minors at first to test his durability against the abuse he would get from whites. When Rickey signed Robinson he told him he wanted a player that “Has the guts not to fight back”(Branch Rickey 42). Jackie was insulted, abused, not just by baseball fans or ordinary white people, but his own teammates! But they started to treat him better when they saw him play on that baseball field.

Jackie was a second baseman/ short stop, but the Dodgers needed him to play first base. Jackie never played first base in his life! But he did well. However, he wasn’t just worried about the game. He received death threats from baseball fans. So he had to play with the thought in the back of his head, that someone in the stands was going to shoot him on the field. He had an extremely hard baseball career, and hard life.

Because of the strength, and courageousness of Jackie Robinson, baseball allows people of all races in M.L.B. as long  as you had the skills. Today you are not judged by you’re skills not race. The movie 42 is probably one of my all-time favorite movies. I would recommend this movie to people of all ages.