Before Los Angeles Dodgers first baseman Jackie Robinson became the first Black player in Major League Baseball and embarked on a Hall-of-Fame MLB career, he was a four-sport star at UCLA ...

"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 ...

Now, Robinson has a 500-foot New York Waterway ferry named after him, which was dedicated Tuesday. Jackie Robinson’s granddaughter, Sonya Pankey and the Robinson Foundation’s CEO of 20 years ...

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 ...

42 jersey, and on the anniversary of his first appearance for the Dodgers, every MLB player wears the number for “Jackie Robinson Day.” In his 10-year career in pro baseball, Robinson was the ...