"Jackie Robinson ... 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 ...
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 is known as the first African American to play Major League Baseball in the United States in modern baseball ...
The Kansas man who pleaded guilty to stealing a Jackie Robinson statue from a Wichita youth baseball league earlier this year ...
Mykalai Kontilai, who fraudulently used Jackie Robinson's Brooklyn Dodgers contracts, was sentenced to 51 months in prison and ordered to pay $6.1 million he stole from investors.
But then again, there haven't been many people like Jackie ... Robinson's debut for the Dodgers in 1947 came a year before President Harry Truman desegregated the military and seven years before ...