Jackie Robinson was also renowned for the thrilling feat of stealing home, which he famously accomplished in Game 1 of the 1955 World Series.

It is a common misconception that Jackie Robinson was the first African-American major-league ballplayer ; he was actually only the first after a long gap ( and the first in the modern era ).

In 1947, Jackie Robinson signed a contract with the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking the color barrier that had prevented talented African American players from entering the white-only major leagues.

The award became national in 1947 ; Jackie Robinson, the Brooklyn Dodgers ' first baseman, won the inaugural award.

The award was renamed the Jackie Robinson Award in July 1987, 40 years after Jackie Robinson broke the baseball color line.

Of the 128 players named Rookie of the Year, 14 have been elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame — Jackie Robinson, five American League players, and eight others from the National League.

" Past winners such as Jackie Robinson, Don Newcombe, and Sam Jethroe had professional experience in the Negro Leagues.

* Dedicating April 15 as Jackie Robinson Day ( 2004 )

It first appeared in Shea Stadium, and the original can still be seen on display at Citi Field, outside the Jackie Robinson Rotunda.

Under Veeck's leadership, one of Cleveland's most significant achievements was breaking the color barrier in the American League by signing Larry Doby, formerly a player for the Negro League's Newark Eagles in, eleven weeks after Jackie Robinson signed with the Dodgers.

The Chicago Cubs retired numbers are commemorated on pinstriped flags flying from the foul poles at Wrigley Field, with the exception of Jackie Robinson, the Brooklyn Dodgers player whose number 42 was retired for all clubs.

He was one of the few opposing players publicly to welcome Jackie Robinson to the majors.

Greenberg played first base for the Pirates in 1947 and was one of the few opposing players to publicly welcome Jackie Robinson to the majors.

( Jackie Robinson had broken the color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers in the National League 11 weeks earlier.

* 1944 – Jackie Robinson refuses to move to the back of a bus, leading to a court martial.

Jack Roosevelt " Jackie " Robinson ( January 31, 1919 – October 24, 1972 ) was an American baseball player who became the first black Major League Baseball ( MLB ) player of the modern era.

Since that time, Major League Baseball has adopted a new annual tradition, " Jackie Robinson Day ," in which all players on all teams wear # 42.

Robinson portrayed himself in the 1950 motion picture The Jackie Robinson Story.

* Andre Braugher, in the 1990 TNT television movie The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson.

In 1970, Robinson established the Jackie Robinson Construction Company to build housing for low-income families.

Early films, including those from the silent era, which feature the station include Traffic in Souls ( 1913 ), which starred Matt Moore ; The Yellow Passport ( 1916 ), starring Clara Kimball Young ; My Boy ( 1921 ), starring Jackie Coogan ; Frank Capra's The Strong Man ( 1926 ), starring Harry Langdon ; We Americans ( 1928 ), starring John Boles ; The Mating Call ( film ), 1928, co-starring Thomas Meighan and Renée Adorée ; Ellis Island ( 1936 ), starring Donald Cook ; Paddy O ' Day ( 1936 ), starring Jane Withers ; Gateway ( 1938 ), starring Don Ameche ; Exile Express ( 1939 ), which starred Anna Sten ; I, Jane Doe ( 1948 ), starring Ruth Hussey and Vera Ralston, and Gambling House ( 1951 ), starring Victor Mature

As an exception to the retired-number policy, MLB has recently begun honoring Robinson by allowing players to wear number 42 on April 15, Jackie Robinson Day.

For the 60th anniversary of Robinson's major league debut, MLB invited players to wear the number 42 on Jackie Robinson Day in 2007.

During the next two seasons, Griffey would wear number 42 on April 15, beginning a tradition known as Jackie Robinson Day.

He has also directed two episodes of 30 Rock (" Retreat to Move Forward " and " Leap Day ") and six episodes of Showtime's Nurse Jackie.

Choruses of " Red and Yellow Army ", " Mary fae Maryhill ", " Over Land and Sea ", " Forever and Ever " and " We've Followed the Thistle for Many a Day " are commonly heard in the singing section of the Jackie Husband Stand or " The Shed " as they are colloquially known, on match-days.

Jackie Cane retains the dreamy elements of Hooverphonic's previous works, most notably on songs " Nirvana Blue " and " Human Interest " ( which contains references to " Echoes " by Pink Floyd ), but tracks like " The World Is Mine " ( the first single ) and " Day After Day " have a clear Broadway influence and quality to them.

However, since 2009, all players are required to wear # 42 ( without names ) on Jackie Robinson Day.

It featured many of his characters including: Lawrence Orbach, Ed Grimley, Jackie Rogers Jr, Bradley P. Allen, Troy Soren, and Dale O ' Day ( the dancing fence ); released on VHS, it is now out of print.

As chief musician, he played shows across the Pacific Theater with Jackie Cooper as his drummer and Dennis Day as his vocalist.

The Type 47 is fondly remembered for taking both first and second places ( driven by John Miles and Jackie Oliver, respectively ) in its very first race held at the storied Brands Hatch race course on Boxing Day.

Stefanie Powers, Wayne Rogers, William Shatner, Leslie Nielsen, Richard Anderson, Claude Akins, Carl Betz, Meredith Baxter Birney, Bill Bixby ( Meriwether's real-life ex-classmate ), Jack Cassidy, Geraldine Brooks, Richard Bull, Dabney Coleman, Jackie Coogan, Glenn Corbett, Cathy Lee Crosby, Meg Foster, Robert Foxworth, Anne Francis, Lynda Day George, Richard Hatch, James Hong, Claudia Jennings, Lenore Kasdorf, Margot Kidder, Geoffrey Lewis, Ida Lupino, Roddy McDowell, George Maharis, Read Morgan, Nick Nolte, Joan Tompkins, and Jessica Walter.

The Chiefs added four alternate jerseys to their rotation for the season: one for Latin American Day, a second for Jackie Robinson Day ( commemorating Negro League uniforms ), a third for national holidays such as Independence Day and Memorial Day, and a fourth for Breast Cancer Awareness Night.

Both Jackie and Donald are missing from the final scenes of the second-to-last short made in the 1930-31 season, Bargain Day, owing to their beginning work at Paramount.

In 1997 a BBC film crew came to the archive to film Jackie for a programme about her life which was to be part of ' The Day That Changed My Life ' series.

The role of Henry's best friend, Homer Brown, was played by Jackie Kelk ( as well as Jack Grimes, Michael O ' Day and John Fiedler ).

* Diana Day as Jackie

Notable guests were the bands Red Hot Chili Peppers, Green Day, Coldplay, U2, Oasis, Metallica, and Manowar, martial-arts star Jackie Chan, 50 Cent, Eminem, D12, Mark Wahlberg, Rihanna, Jay-Z, Paris Hilton, and Kylie Minogue.

In 1987, both the National and American League Rookie of the Year Awards were renamed the " Jackie Robinson Award " in honor of the first recipient ( Robinson's Major League Rookie of the Year Award in 1947 encompassed both leagues ).

Major reforms of the British fleet were undertaken, particularly by Admiral Jackie Fisher as First Sea Lord from 1904 to 1909.

Of the six players with retired numbers, five were retired for their play with the Phillies and one, 42, was universally retired by Major League Baseball when they honored the fiftieth anniversary of Jackie Robinson's breaking the color barrier.

While the topic of retiring # 21 throughout Major League Baseball like Jackie Robinson's # 42 has been broached, and supported by groups such as Hispanics Across America, Jackie Robinson's daughter disagrees, believing that Major League Baseball should honor him another way.

Five were in honor of Padre players and one was Jackie Robinson's number 42, which was retired by all of Major League Baseball.

Williams was referring to two of the most famous names in the Negro Leagues, who were not given the opportunity to play in the Major Leagues before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in 1947.

Gretzky's jersey number 99 is only the second number ever to be retired league-wide by a major North American sports league, the other being Jackie Robinson's number 42, which was retired by Major League Baseball in 1997.

Other members of the Hall who played in both the Negro leagues and Major League Baseball are Hank Aaron, Ernie Banks, Roy Campanella, Larry Doby, Willie Mays, and Jackie Robinson.

In, Campanella moved into the Brooklyn Dodgers ' minor league system, as the Dodger organization began preparations to break the Major Leagues ' color barrier with Jackie Robinson.

Jackie Robinson's first season in the Major Leagues came in 1947, and Campanella began his Major League career with the Brooklyn Dodgers the following season, playing his first game on April 20, 1948.

* Jackie Moore, Major League Baseball Manager, coach and player.

Major League Baseball catcher, coach, scout & manager who scouted & signed Major Leagues ’ 1st black player, Jackie Robinson.

* Branch Rickey, baseball agent that signed Jackie Robinson ; also credited with forming the farm leagues for Major League Baseball

Reese was a strong supporter of the first 20th century black Major League Baseball player, Jackie Robinson.

* Jackie Robinson ( 1919 – 1972 ), American Major League Baseball player

He made a brief appearance in the film Soldier in the Rain starring Jackie Gleason and Steve McQueen and starred as Major Dan McCready, the ill-fated mission commander of ' Mars Gravity Probe 1 ' in the 1964 film Robinson Crusoe on Mars.

* In 1997, to honor Jackie Robinson, Major League Baseball prohibited all teams from issuing # 42 in the future ; current players wearing # 42 were allowed to continue to do so.