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 ...

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 ...

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.

Robinson was the first Black player to break major league baseball’s color barrier, playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers Montreal ...

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 ...

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 ...

Noted actor Mike Wiley brings his interactive one-man show, “Jackie Robinson: A Game Apart,” to the Thomasville Center for ...

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.

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 ...