Here are 42 facts to celebrate the legendary athlete. 1. Jackie Robinson was born in Georgia but raised in California. Jack "Jackie" Roosevelt Robinson was born on January 31, 1919, in Cairo ...

Robinson broke baseball’s color barrier on April 15, 1947. He stepped into the batter’s box at Ebbets Field in the Flatbush ...

Seventy-eight years ago on Tuesday, Jackie Robinson took the field for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking the color barrier in Major League Baseball. Appropriately, April 15, Jackie Robinson Day, also ...