A baseball giant remembered today

#RockSolidHistory from the former Ebbets Field in Brooklyn! Seventy-eight years ago today, baseball great Jackie Robinson was given a Cadillac.

Why? He had completed his first season with the Brooklyn Dodgers. It was important because Robinson was the first Black man to be signed to a major league baseball team.

Robinson, an accomplished athlete in not only baseball, but track & field, basketball and football too, played for the Dodgers for 10 seasons overall and was an All-Star for six seasons. He then retired to become VP of the Chock-Full-of-Nuts coffee company, another first, but in the corporate world.

I recently visited the Jackie Robinson Museum in Manhattan. Opened in 2022, it tells about all of Robinson’s triumphs, as well as his wife Rachel’s, and there were many. He was a peaceful person who propelled the Civil Rights Movement, opening a bank to help Black persons buy a home and a construction company to build housing for low-income families. He was also active in politics and held a position in the state of New York.

But there is so much more to his story and his impact on others. Go check it out at the museum!
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