At 5’10", 180 pounds, and built tough, Rickey liked baseball, but not as much as he did football, where he competed with great force on both sides of the ball. He was so good, they said, as to be special. Sports had always drawn Rickey's interest, and he quickly impressed his new friends in Oakland with what he could do across a range of games. Looking back some years later, he said, "Going to California was a one-way trip." Rickey was 12 when his family arrived in Oakland. It started around 1900 and ended in the late 1960s. "The Great Migration" was the term used to describe this mass movement to California.
This time the destination was Oakland, Calif., where the prospects for her children were substantially better.īobbie's story was like that of thousands of black Americans, most of whom lived in Southern states. There were no jobs, and segregationists were waging a violent last stand against integration." Bobbie decided to move her family again. Writes Howard Bryant: "Pine Bluff was a nowhere town for black people. The couple parted ways, and Bobbie moved the family (she had four children) to Pine Bluff, Arkansas, to work on her mother's farm. Rickey was born in Chicago on Christmas Day in 1958 to Bobbie Earl and John Henley.
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