But you probably know him better as Jackie Robinsson.
JACK ROOSEVELT "JACKIE" ROBINSON (1919-1972)
The first black Major League Baseball player of the modern era when he made his 1947 debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers and ended some sixty years of baseball segregation.
Robinson went on to have an extraordinary baseball career and in 1962 was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
He not only battled racism in sports, but also he was an officer in the highly segregated U.S. Army during World War II. I'll write about his WW II career in my Tattooed on Your Soul: World War II blog.
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