But then again, there haven't been many people like Jackie Robinson. "A life is not important," he ... which had served him so well as an athlete, gave out early. Diabetes and heart disease ...

Dodgers great Jackie Robinson was a household name before he broke the Major League Baseball color barrier in 1947. In Montreal, at least, where the fans accepted and revered him. That’s where ...

Jackie Robinson was an exceptional athlete and a civil rights leader. On April 15, 1947, he broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball when he trotted out to first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers.

SportsCentury: Disciples of Jackie ... Robinson, Willie McCovey, Bob Gibson, Lou Brock, Bill White, Mudcat Grant and Ed Charles are among the players who take us back to the late 1950s and early ...

Born to tenant farmers in rural Georgia and raised in Pasadena, California, Robinson excelled at athletics from an early age, eventually enrolling at UCLA, where he lettered in four sports and met ...

Rachael Robinson said her husband, Jackie Robinson, would be impatient today about the progress. “A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives,” Jackie Robinson said. He ...

He was the last link to the Dodgers team that made baseball history when Jackie Robinson became the first Black player to suit up for a National or American League team in the 20th century.

After a stint with the minor-league Montreal Royals, Jackie Robinson was the first Black man to play in Major League Baseball and a key contributor to the civil rights movement in the United States.

Before Los Angeles Dodgers first baseman Jackie ... early in the sport's history, it was the first time UCLA's football team had ever been ranked. However, the very next day, Robinson suffered ...