A Life Is Not Important Except In The Impact It Has On Other Lives.” — Jackie Roosevelt Robinson’s Headstone My grandmother took me to Mets games during the summer of 1964 when I was 10 ...

Relying heavily on the letters of Robinson’s wife, Rachel, Arnold Rampersad’s 1997 Jackie Robinson: A Biography offers more nuanced details on Robinson’s upbringing in Southern California ...

LOS ANGELES — Jackie Robinson was the first to break baseball’s color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers 78 years ago Tuesday. His legacy continues to inspire people inside the major leagues ...

“One of the things Jackie obviously nailed is he realized from an early time that life was going to be hard,” Roberts said. “He was special and he was put in this certain position to rise ...

LOS ANGELES -- Jackie Robinson was the first to break baseball's color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers 78 years ago Tuesday. His legacy continues to inspire people inside the major leagues ...

Los,Angeles,-,March,17:,A,Monument,To,Jackie,Robinson (Photo credit: Shutterstock.com / Katherine Welles) Jackie Robinson, an icon in the world of baseball and civil rights, emerged from the ...

A Life Is Not Important Except In The Impact It Has On Other Lives.” — Jackie Roosevelt Robinson’s Headstone. My grandmother took me to Mets games during the summer of 1964 when I was 10 ...

Robinson’s 102-year-old widow marked the anniversary at the Jackie Robinson Museum in ... but she had her own values and her own expectations of us early on to set goals for ourselves in life, ...