Baseball player and civil rights icon Jackie Robinson has been immortalized in many ways — movies, with a larger than life statue in Jersey City, and baseball players all wear his number 42 on ...

"Jackie Robinson's ... it often is a leader. Robinson's debut for the Dodgers in 1947 came a year before President Harry Truman desegregated the military and seven years before the Supreme Court ...

355 (75 OPS+) across 494 career ... military duty before being discharged ahead of spring 1947. He then reported for camp and competed for playing time at first base alongside the legendary Jackie ...