In the century before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball and decades before Jack Johnson became the first African American heavyweight boxing champion, a Black man named ...
Jackie Robinson is seen playing football for UCLA in the late 30s. He would go on to win varsity letters in four sports: baseball, basketball, football and track. Jackie Robinson was written about ...
Jackie Robinson was an exceptional athlete and a ... football, basketball and track and field. According to the California Community Colleges website, Robinson batted .417 with 43 runs scored ...
Jackie Robinson is celebrated as the trailblazer ... He was a multi-talented athlete who shone in football, track and field, basketball, and, of course, baseball. This innate athletic ability ...
Baseball player and civil rights icon Jackie Robinson has been immortalized in many ways — movies, with a larger than life statue in Jersey City, and baseball players all wear his number 42 on ...
Before Los Angeles Dodgers first baseman Jackie Robinson became the first ... basketball, football and track and field. Robinson arrived at UCLA after graduating from Pasadena Junior College ...
"Jackie Robinson's impact was greater than just that of baseball. He was a transforming agent and in the face of such hostility and such meanness and violence, he did it with such amazing dignity.