Editing Jackie Robinson (section)

===Pasadena Junior College===
After Muir, Robinson attended [[Pasadena City College|Pasadena Junior College]] (PJC), where he continued his athletic career by participating in basketball, football, baseball, and track.<ref>[[#Rampersad|Rampersad]], pp. 40–41.</ref> On the football team, he played quarterback and [[Safety (American football position)|safety]]. He was a shortstop and [[leadoff hitter]] for the baseball team,<ref name=Robinsonp9/> and he broke an American junior college broad-jump record held by his brother Mack with a jump of 25&nbsp;ft. {{frac|6|1|2}} in. on May 7, 1938.<ref>{{cite news|last=Glick|first=Shav|title=Robinson a Baseball Star? That's Only a Quarter of Story|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=March 31, 1997|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-03-31-ss-43968-story.html|access-date=October 18, 2021}}</ref> As at Muir High School, most of Jackie's teammates were white.<ref name=Rampp37/> While playing football at PJC, Robinson suffered a fractured ankle, complications from which would eventually delay his deployment status while in the military.<ref>[[#Falkner|Falkner]], p. 44.</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |title=[[Media:INTERVIEW Jackie Robinson U.pdf|Sports: Jackie Robinson]] |first=Bob |last=Stone |date=November 23, 1945 |magazine=[[Yank, the Army Weekly]] |volume=4 |issue=23 |type=PDF |page=23}}</ref> In 1938, he was elected to the All-Southland Junior College Team for baseball and selected as the region's Most Valuable Player.<ref name=Robinson2p20>[[#Robinson2|Robinson, Rachel]], p. 20.</ref><ref>[[#Rampersad|Rampersad]], p. 54.</ref>

That year, Robinson was one of 10 students named to the school's Order of the Mast and Dagger (''Omicron Mu Delta''), awarded to students performing "outstanding service to the school and whose scholastic and citizenship record is worthy of recognition."<ref>[[#Rampersad|Rampersad]], pp. 59–60.</ref> Also while at PJC, he was elected to the Lancers, a student-run police organization responsible for patrolling various school activities.<ref>[[#Rampersad|Rampersad]], p. 47.</ref>

An incident at PJC illustrated Robinson's impatience with authority figures he perceived as [[Racism in the United States|racist]]—a character trait that would resurface repeatedly in his life. On January 25, 1938, he was arrested after vocally disputing the detention of a black friend by police.<ref name="Linge, p. 18">[[#Linge|Linge]], p. 18.</ref> Robinson received a two-year suspended sentence, but the incident—along with other rumored run-ins between Robinson and police—gave Robinson a reputation for combativeness in the face of racial antagonism.<ref>[[#Rampersad|Rampersad]], pp. 50–51.</ref> While at PJC, he was motivated by a preacher (the Rev. Karl Downs) to attend church on a regular basis, and Downs became a confidant for Robinson, a Christian.<ref>[[#Rampersad|Rampersad]], pp. 52–53.</ref> Toward the end of his PJC tenure, Frank Robinson (to whom Robinson felt closest among his three brothers) was killed in a motorcycle accident. The event motivated Jackie to pursue his athletic career at the nearby [[University of California, Los Angeles]] (UCLA), where he could remain closer to Frank's family.<ref name=Robinson2p20/><ref>[[#Falkner|Falkner]], p. 51.</ref>