A version of this story originally appeared on MiLB.com in 2006. We present it here once more as Minor League Baseball ...

Dodgers great Jackie Robinson was a household name before he broke the Major ... in arms over the way I had been treated," ...

"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.

Dodgers great Jackie Robinson was a household name before ... I had been treated," Robinson wrote in “My Own Story,” his autobiography published in 1972. "Greeting us warmly, they let us ...

But then again, there haven't been many people like Jackie Robinson. "A life is not important," he said, "except in the impact it has on other lives." Jackie Robinson led the way for generations ...