Jackie Robinson played 10 full seasons for the Brooklyn Dodgers, from 1947 to 1956. He won a batting title (1949), and was named the National League's Rookie of the Year (1947) and Most Valuable Player (1949). He appeared in six World Series, all of them against the New York Yankees (1947, 1949, 1952, 1953, 1955 and 1956). The Dodgers won their only world championship in Brooklyn in 1955. After his retirement, Robinson was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962, his first year of eligibility.
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Jackie Robinson was born January 31, 1919 and played his first Major League Baseball game on April 15, 1947 making him 28years old.
In 1970, Satchel Paige, credited with 55 no-hitters, was the first Negro League star to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. Note: Jackie Robinson, the 1st modern Black Major Leaguer, played for the Kansas City Monarchs (1945), of the Negro League was Elected to Hall of Fame by Baseball Writers in 1962, BUT he made it because of his time with the Dodgers.
His first major-league game was on April 15, 1947 as the Brooklyn Dodgers played the Boston Braves at Ebbets Field. Robinson went 0-for-4 but scored the go-ahead run in Brooklyn's 5-3 victory. April 15 has become "Jackie Robinson Day" in Major League Baseball and every player wears Robinson's No. 42 during their games.
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In 1939 the US Issued a stamp picturing kids playing baseball on a sandlot. Thirty years later a batter was pictured on a stamp honoring professional baseball. In 1982, Jackie Robinson was pictured and named on a postage stamp.
He has always worn 51 except on Jackie Robinson the last couple years he has worn #42.