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 ...

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 ...