Both topped the podium at the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships, coincidentally at the same location (University of Minnesota’s campus in Minneapolis). The only time I was ever noticed was when somebody asked me during at an assembly at school if I'd race against a horse. Matthew MacKenzie "Mack" Robinson was born to a family of sharecroppers on July 18, 1912 in Cairo, Georgia. Matthew grew up with three other siblings, including the famed Jackie Robinson. That makes you better than an awful lot of people. In addition to the Pasadena Robinson Memorial, the stadium of Note 1: In 1888 both the NAAAA and the AAU held championshipsOT: The 1920, 1928, 1932, and since 1992, championships incorporated the Olympic Trials, otherwise held as a discrete event. And I didn't have a dime to make a trip like that on my own. The trials were in New York, and Pasadena Junior College didn't have any money to send me. Was only able to attend the United States trials for the 1936 Olympics in New York after a group of local businessmen in Pasadena, California raised the $150 dollars needed to pay for his train fare. The Several locations are named in honor of Matthew Robinson. For a time in the early 1970s, Mack was a park director of Lemon Grove Park, a park in the Later in life, he was known for leading the fight against street crime in his home town of Pasadena. [on several local businessmen in Pasadena raising the $150 dollars he needed to pay the train fare so he could attend the Olympic trials in 1936] No one paid an athlete's way in those days. What people probably don’t realize, however, is the fact that years before Jackie Robinson was making headlines, his older brother Mack came within half a second of becoming the most famous sprinter in history.
The Robinson family eventually moved to Pasadena, California. I was totally ignored. The older brother of legendary Hall of Fame baseball player Jackie Robinson, Mack and his siblings were raised by their mother Mallie Robinson after they were left fatherless at an early age. If anybody in Pasadena was proud for me, other than my family and close friends, they never showed it. It means that only one other person in the world was better than you. The older brother of legendary Hall of Fame baseball player Jackie Robinson, Mack and his siblings were raised by their mother Mallie Robinson after they were left fatherless at an early age. Matthew MacKenzie “Mack” Robinson (1912-2000) An exceptional athlete and one of America’s leading sprinters of the 1930s, Matthew Mackenzie “Mack” Robinson, was born in Cairo, Georgia in 1912. Matthew MacKenzie "Mack" Robinson (July 18, 1914 – March 12, 2000) was an American track and field athlete. The older brother of legendary Hall of Fame baseball player He is best known for winning a silver medal in the 1936 Summer Olympics, where he broke the Olympic record in the 200 meter but still finished behind Jesse Owens (like Jesse Owens, Robinson was an African-American). After their father left following the birth of the last child, mother Mallie Robinson decided to take her five … I am getting awfully tired of being referred to as just Jackie Robinson and older brother Mack went to different colleges in different years: Jackie to UCLA in 1939; Mack several years earlier to Oregon. Matthew MacKenzie "Mack" Robinson was born to a family of sharecroppers on July 18, 1912 in Cairo, Georgia. He was the older brother of Baseball Hall of Fame member Jackie Robinson.
[on winning a silver medal at the 1936 Olympics] It's not too bad to be the second best in the world at what you're doing, no matter what it is. Matthew MacKenzie "Mack" Robinson was born to a family of sharecroppers on July 18, 1912 in Cairo, Georgia. Passed along by Reddit Baseball, this New York Times piece from July about the silver and bronze medal finishersin the 1936 Olympic 200-meter dash highlights a …