He died Oct. 24, 1972, according to the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame. “Jackie Robinson made my success possible,” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. famously said. “Without him, I would never ...

During Trump’s 2020 campaign, he even used Robinson in a campaign ad. It’s all clumsy. But none of it is an accident. Trump would love a neat, tidy version of Jackie — who died right around ...