For Larry Doby Jr., son of the Hall of Famer who was the second man of color to break baseball’s segregation policy, he could only vent when asked about the recent theft of the Jackie Robinson ...

Baseball legend Jackie Robinson, born Jan. 31, 1919, in Georgia, broke the color line in Major League Baseball when he started on first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947. Robinson con… ...

See Jackie Robinson's life in photos ... Jackie Jr., born in 1946, Sharon, born in 1950, and David, born in 1952. Jackie Jr. tragically died in a car accident at just 24 years old.

The year before Robinson’s death, his son Jackie Robinson Jr. died in a car accident after struggling for years to overcome substance abuse issues related to war wounds suffered in Vietnam in 1965.

Jackie Robinson broke the baseball color line in 1947 and became the first African ... who died 25 days before Robinson was ... Jackie Robinson Jr., that November. The Robinsons had ...

Baseball Hall-of-Famer Jackie Robinson, who died at the age of 53 in ... Martin Luther King Jr. would honor Robinson as a "legend and a symbol" who "challenged the dark skies of intolerance and ...

Jackie Robinson Day this year comes just a few weeks after the Trump ... and the fight for equality cost the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., ... Despite routinely being subjected to death ...

Jackie Robinson's courage offers an example that seems much needed today. ... he criticized Martin Luther King Jr., ... Robinson died much too soon.

Jackie Roosevelt Robinson was named after President Theodore Roosevelt, who died 25 days before Robinson was born on Jan. 31, 1919, in Cairo, Ga. 2. In 1934, at age 15, he won the Pasadena (Ca.) ...