Seventy-eight years ago, on April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson made his Major League Baseball debut and integrated Major League Baseball.

Before he broke barriers and records with the Brooklyn Dodgers, Jackie Robinson was a four-sport phenom at UCLA, starring in football, basketball, track and field, and of course, baseball.

Regarding Barry Svrluga’s April 7 front-page column, “ Ovechkin over all ”: ...