Jackie calls his mother in Pasadena, who suggests he seek a minister's advice. Rickey warns Jackie that he will have to take insults, name-calling and dirty play, and not fight back, but do his job with hits, stolen bases and fielding. Rickey tells Jackie that because of setbacks caused by the war, he has sent scouts to look at players in Mexico, Cuba and in other Latin American countries, in addition to untapped sources in the U.S. Sukeforth finally convinces Jackie that his offer is real, and he travels to Brooklyn to meet with owner Branch Rickey. When Brooklyn Dodger scout Clyde Sukeforth asks Jackie to meet with the Dodgers, Jackie, not believing the man, fails to show up for the train he is to take to New York. After the war, Jackie plays baseball for the Black Panthers, a team in the Negro professional leagues and is soon introduced to the indignities of segregated life on the road. During World War II, he is drafted and becomes an athletic director in the army, while rising to the rank of lieutenant. Jackie is skeptical about the value of a degree because schools are not hiring 'colored coaches.' Jackie remains in school, but his applications for college coaching positions are rejected. After discussing it with his mother, who wants him to graduate, Jackie talks with Mack, now a street sweeper despite his college degree.

Although Jackie receives Honorable Mention on the All-American team, he tells his girl friend, Rae Isum, that he wants to leave school and look for a full-time job so that they can get married. After Jackie leads his conference in touchdowns, UCLA football coach Bill Spaulding recruits him despite complaints from a colleague that 'colored boys' have been getting too many athletic scholarships. In 1937, while representing Pasadena Junior College, Jackie breaks the national junior college broad jump record, which was previously held by his brother Mack. In 1928, Jackie Robinson, a young African-American boy who loves baseball, is given an old, worn out glove by a white man.

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