"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 ... were up in arms over the way I had been treated," Robinson wrote in “My Own Story,” his autobiography published in 1972.

SportsCentury: Disciples of Jackie Robinson celebrates Black History Month by tracing the plight of the African-American players who came after Jackie Robinson broke Major League Baseball's color ...

Dodgers great Jackie Robinson was a household name before he broke the Major League Baseball color barrier in 1947. In ...