<P> After his acquittal, he was transferred to Camp Breckinridge, Kentucky, where he served as a coach for army athletics until receiving an honorable discharge in November 1944 . While there, Robinson met a former player for the Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro American League, who encouraged Robinson to write the Monarchs and ask for a tryout . Robinson took the former player's advice and wrote to Monarchs' co-owner Thomas Baird . </P> <P> After his discharge, Robinson briefly returned to his old football club, the Los Angeles Bulldogs . Robinson then accepted an offer from his old friend and pastor Rev. Karl Downs to be the athletic director at Samuel Huston College in Austin, then of the Southwestern Athletic Conference . The job included coaching the school's basketball team for the 1944--45 season . As it was a fledgling program, few students tried out for the basketball team, and Robinson even resorted to inserting himself into the lineup for exhibition games . Although his teams were outmatched by opponents, Robinson was respected as a disciplinarian coach, and drew the admiration of, among others, Langston University basketball player Marques Haynes, a future member of the Harlem Globetrotters . </P> <P> In early 1945, while Robinson was at Sam Huston College, the Kansas City Monarchs sent him a written offer to play professional baseball in the Negro leagues . Robinson accepted a contract for $400 per month . Although he played well for the Monarchs, Robinson was frustrated with the experience . He had grown used to a structured playing environment in college, and the Negro leagues' disorganization and embrace of gambling interests appalled him . The hectic travel schedule also placed a burden on his relationship with Isum, with whom he could now communicate only by letter . In all, Robinson played 47 games at shortstop for the Monarchs, hitting . 387 with five home runs, and registering 13 stolen bases . He also appeared in the 1945 Negro League All - Star Game, going hitless in five at - bats . </P> <P> During the season, Robinson pursued potential major - league interests . No black man had played in the major leagues since Moses Fleetwood Walker in 1884, but the Boston Red Sox nevertheless held a tryout at Fenway Park for Robinson and other black players on April 16 . The tryout, however, was a farce chiefly designed to assuage the desegregationist sensibilities of powerful Boston City Councilman Isadore Muchnick . Even with the stands limited to management, Robinson was subjected to racial epithets . He left the tryout humiliated, and more than fourteen years later, in July 1959, the Red Sox became the last major league team to integrate its roster . </P>

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