For his Baseball career, he was named 1947 NL Rookie of the Year and 1949 NL Most Valuable Player. He was selected to the NL All Star team 6 times.
Non-Baseball:
1) In 1956 he was awarded the Spingrn Medal by the NAACP for the highest achievement by an African American.
2) In 1976 his home was declared a National Historic Landmark.
3) In 1984 President Reagan awarded him, posthumously, the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
4) The high school he attended in California named its football field after him.
5) UCLA, where he attended college, named its baseball stadium after him.
6) He was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal by the U.S. Congress in 2003.
7) He was inducted into the California Hall of Fame in 2007.
8) in 1947 Robinson won the National League Rookie of the Year
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