Summary

 Branch Rickey, the president of the Dodgers is inspired to make a social experiment; to have an African American baseball player in a all white major league. His inspiration started when he was a coach for Ohio Wesleyan and had a black player named Charley, he was with the team when the team went to go stay at a hotel. The hotel manger did not allow Charley to stay, so instead Branch told the manger to put a cot in his room. Charley felt ashamed and heartbroken that he wanted to peel the skin off so that he would be white. The Branch told him, "the day will come when they won't have to be white." Many years later Branch Rickey became the president of the Dodgers and was looking for a way to have equality for blacks and whites in baseball. He was looking for black baseball player who was good enough not to fight back in a game if someone where to insult him. A reporter named Wendell Smith told Branch about a good baseball player named Jackie Robinson that was black. After that Branch began his investigation on Jackie. Jackie goes to meet Branch the next day. Branch was giving Jackie situations that might happen in a baseball game. Jackie passed the test and became part of Montreal Royals.